The News from San Diego

As I said, I don't know anything about this "Comic-Con Special Edition" that's going to take place in San Diego on Thanksgiving weekend other than the dates, the fact that it's not Comic-Con International and the fact that it'll be in the San Diego Convention Center.

I may be more interested in the San Diego Convention Center than you are. As you know, it's been housing and serving a lot of San Diego's homeless population during the pandemic. That's winding down now and the folks who are there are being relocated…but new tenants are arriving

The San Diego Convention Center, repurposed as a temporary overflow facility for unaccompanied migrant children, will house girls between the ages of 13 and 17, federal officials said Saturday, hours before the first 500 arrivals were expected to arrive from Texas and Arizona.

The linked article goes on to say that the Convention Center will begin hosting actual conventions in August. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria is quoted as saying, "…what we know right now is there is no use for this facility (until August) and this is a public asset. People in this city own it. It can sit here vacant, doing nothing, or it can do something on behalf of thousands of kids who need it." A convention center in Dallas is housing males of the same age seeking asylum.

Here's what it looks like down there in S.D…