San Diego Convention Center Closes Migrant Shelter After 3+ Months; Loses Big Conventions

July 3, 2021 2:33 amJuly 5, 2021 10:41 am

The temporary San Diego Convention Center migrant shelter closed on Friday after less than 4 months in operation. The migrant shelter opened up in late March to help combat the large surge of Central American migrant children being sent across...

San Diego Convention Center To Be Used As Emergency Facility To House Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

March 24, 2021 3:09 amMarch 26, 2021 6:47 am

On Monday, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chairman Nathan Fletcher announced that the San Diego Convention Center will be used as a facility to house unaccompanied immigrant children in this country illegally. According...

Gov. Newsom to Select New California AG Following Becerra’s Confirmation as HHS Secretary

March 18, 2021 3:35 pm

The U.S. Senate confirmed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Thursday as President Joe Biden’s health secretary, to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a narrow 50-49 vote. Among one of the last of President Biden’s nominees to...

BREAKING: HHS Announces $200 Million Withholding of Medicaid Funds From California

December 16, 2020 6:05 pmDecember 18, 2020 10:13 am

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that $200 million in Medicaid funding will be withheld from California in the first quarter of 2021 over illegally mandating that all health care plans in the state...

AG Xavier Becerra Named As Biden HHS Secretary

December 7, 2020 3:05 pm

On Monday, presumed President-elect Joe Biden picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), a move that would leave open a key Constitutional office in California. Becerra, who also served in the...

Showboating California AG Sues Trump Administration Over Technical Abortion Measure

February 6, 2020 2:57 pmFebruary 7, 2020 8:48 am

Somebody who casually glanced at California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s press release on his “Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Attack on Healthcare Access and Reproductive Rights” declaring determination to fight “another Trump Administration attack on women,” could be forgiven for thinking...

Trump Administration Threatens to Stop Some Federal Health Funding Over California’s Abortion Law

January 24, 2020 1:26 pm

On Friday the Trump Administration threatened California that it would halt certain federal health funds because of California’s requirement that abortions need to be covered under insurance. A new federal stance on insured abortion laws The Department of Health and...