ICE started transferring an unusually high number of detainees who already had San Diego-area attorneys out of the Otay Mesa Detention Center last spring.

Construction to replace the last section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence east of the binational Friendship Park resumed last week — and now plans are underway to close additional gaps along the San Diego border area following President Donald Trump’s executive orders on border security,

A Border Patrol agent pats down one of four men after the group crossed the border illegally through a gap in two walls separating Mexico from the United States before turning themselves in, Thursday,