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Good morning, San Diego.
San Diegans are rallying to the cause of Buona Forchetta and its employees, who were arrested in an aggressive restaurant raid by ICE on Friday afternoon. Democratic lawmakers appeared in a joint press conference yesterday to condemn the raid, during which border agents tossed flash-bang grenades at people nearby — some of whom were families with children — and Buona Forchetta has closed its doors until Wednesday.
But perhaps the clearest community rebuke of the ICE action is a GoFundMe put together by local small businesses to cover legal fees, lost wages, and other expenses for the restaurant and its employees, which at the time of this writing has topped $110k — nearly double its original goal. Meanwhile, the acting ICE director got emotional while defending the agency’s actions.
Elsewhere in San Diego, water and water rights were a major topic yesterday, from the Tijuana River Valley to the Colorado River; the City Council has approved Sunday parking enforcement (terrible news); and several East County teachers are retiring, including one who was one of my own teachers back in the wilds of the early 1990s, when I was just a wee nerd. I’ll leave you to guess which one.
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Today’s top story
San Diego lawmakers angry over armed ICE raid on South Park restaurant
By JW August
San Diego lawmakers reacted with fury Monday to last weekend’s armed ICE raid on a popular South Park restaurant.
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Today’s opinion column
Opinion: After the terror attack on Jews in Boulder, will San Diego be next?
We cannot let the tragedies of Poway, Washington or Boulder happen again. But Jews cannot end antisemitism without the wider community’s help.
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