tent city

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• He highlighted reporting on the sprawling tent cities south of the San Ysidro port of entry, growing because of the Migrant Protection Protocols, a federal policy that’s forced migrants to wait in Mexico as their cases are resolved.

• The residents of this tent city are asylum-seekers who have already been waiting in Mexico for months and hope the new president means their wait is finally over.

• Speaking of MPP, two local reporters wrote separate stories about a sprawling tent city growing just south of the San Ysidro port of entry.

• KPBS’s Max Rivlin-Nadler painted a vivid picture of life in this growing tent city, which has attracted a crew of volunteer cooks, doctors, teachers and social workers.

• The deadly crash Monday as a storm approached was a shocking reminder of the dangers people who live in those tent cities face and of the challenge the mayor and a largely new class of City Council members have inherited.

• Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.

• To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

• Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.

• “I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

• Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

• The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.

• This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.