SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Darrell Issa is the lone Republican in the congressional delegation from the San Diego region.
His 48th Congressional District covers a large portion of the border between California and Mexico, and on Wednesday morning, he invited Republican mayors from San Diego County and others to join him on a tour of the border.
U.S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey, a former baseball star in both San Diego and Los Angeles, also came along.
The group started its tour at Border Field State Park, which is home to Friendship Park and the iconic fence that runs into the ocean.
“It’s very important to have our leaders and those who might be our new leaders to come here and see how the Border Patrol, over the years, has come up with better protection to make the border safer and, quite frankly, safer for people on both sides,” Issa said.
Issa and the others also got a chance to get close to the new border barriers that have gone up in this part of the southern border. …read more…