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The Guardian - US
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Paulina Velasco in San Diego

RARE PHOTOS: More than 14 000 asylum seekers were sent to san diego local support systems were overwhelmed - The Real Truth

Asylum seekers take advantage of phone chargers and wifi to connect with family back home in Oceanside, California.
Asylum seekers take advantage of phone chargers and wifi to connect with family back home in Oceanside, California. Photograph: Daniel Trotta/Reuters

About 150 people, most of them men, were milling around on the corner of the Iris Avenue transit center parking lot in southern San Diego last Wednesday.

It’s one of several locations in the southern California city where Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the US border agency, since mid-September has been releasing asylum seekers who have crossed the US-Mexico border.

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