LIV Golf star Phil Mickelson reacted on social media as a local California lawmaker talked about millions of gallons of sewage being dumped from Mexico into the water near San Diego.

San Diego County District 5 Supervisor Jim Desmond spoke at a recent meeting about beaches around the historic Hotel Del being closed during Memorial Day weekend. He also mentioned Navy SEALs and other towns being affected by the sewage crisis from Mexico.

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Desmond said in the meeting that the only solution is for Mexico to build and maintain a treatment facility.

“Over Memorial Day weekend, beaches near the Hotel Del were shut down—again—because Mexico is dumping up to 10 million gallons of sewage into our waters every day,” Desmond added on X on Tuesday. “Our Navy SEALs are getting sick. Imperial Beach has been closed for three years straight. We’re paying 80% to treat Mexico’s sewage while they ignore decades of agreements and do nothing to fix their infrastructure.

“I introduced a common-sense proposal to apply pressure—including restricting border activity during health emergencies—until Mexico takes responsibility. Unfortunately, my colleagues voted it down, not wanting to pressure Mexico. San Diegans deserve better. I’m not backing down.”

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Mickelson appeared to have his antenna up on the issue as well.

“Something about this doesn’t smell right,” he wrote in response to Desmond’s post.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said last month the U.S. and Mexico were on the verge of a deal regarding the sewage issue.

“This week, EPA transmitted to Mexico a proposed ‘100% solution’ that would PERMANENTLY END the decades-old crisis of raw sewage flowing in to the U.S. from Mexico. Next, technical groups from both nations will be meeting to work through the details necessary to hopefully reach an urgent agreement,” Zeldin wrote on X in May. 

Zeldin visited San Diego in April, where he announced talks with his government counterparts in Mexico to end the decades-long issue. The problem, blamed on outdated wastewater infrastructure, has persisted for decades but has spiraled in recent years as Tijuana’s population skyrocketed.

Tijuana, Mexico, top, and San Diego (Getty Images)

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In February, the Department of Defense’s inspector general released a report finding that the Naval Special Warfare Center reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses among SEAL candidates between January 2019 and May 2023 that were attributed to the contaminated water.

Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.

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A housing development in Oceanside got the green light from the planning commission, but many people living near the project want it stopped.

The developer wants to put 35 single-family homes on a 4 1/2-acre piece of land, near where Interstate 5 meets state Route 78.

The proposed site for the Pacific Lagoon project, which overlooks Buena Vista Lagoon, is nestled in an established neighborhood of mostly single-family homes with sizable yards.

“We’re in kind of a rural area, and we don’t have the ability to account for that type of density traveling on our roads,” neighbor Bob Ashton said.

Ashton and other neighbors living on or near Kelly Street, which is the only entrance and exit to the development, say it’s simply too many homes.

“Adding 35 homes in such a small area is going to fully change the neighborhood,” Kelly Street homeowner Heidi Phillips said.

They are concerned the about parking, traffic and the impact on the surrounding beauty.

“I am very in tune with nature, so when I found the lagoon, it was something that I felt close to nature. I don’t want to see that go away,” Kelly Street renter Anastacia Lauren said.

Lauren shared a photo of the project notice sign. It was pulled out and thrown to the ground. The patience in the area is being tested.

“I didn’t see who it did it, but people are mad about this project,” Lauren said.

The project includes 35 single family homes — mostly two story but some three story closer to the bottom of the slope. Six of those are dedicated to low- to middle-income families selling for between $200,000 and $500,000. The rest will be sold at market value, around $1 million.

Project developer Steve Sheldon says he’s listening to community concerns. One of those is a longstanding problem with heavy and fast-moving traffic at the intersection of Cassidy and Soto streets just about a quarter mile from the project. Sheldon says he told the city on Monday that he would pay the cost of a four-way stop there.

“Just something that was asked for that we thought we should do,” Sheldon said.

Sheldon says the project is low to middle density and appropriate for that area between big box stores and estate homes. Also, each unit has ample parking.

“In this project, there are four spaces per home,” Sheldon said. “We are almost double the requirements of city code. I am very comfortable the parking is going to be more than sufficient.”

Oceanside, like other San Diego County communities, has a quota of affordable housing to meet by 2029. While Sheldon says his homes will be affordable to working people, neighbors fear new state density bonus laws are working against them.

“The cities need to say enough is enough and not accept that state bill and be strong armed by the state,“ Ashton said.

The planning commission recommendation will be under consideration by the full city council at its June 18 meeting.

Digital thieves are nothing if not persistent and innovative.

They keep finding new ways to try to part you from your money.

Phishing — where thieves pose as trusted entities or send legitimate looking emails or messages to trick you into giving them access to your accounts — is a widespread method. And it is constantly evolving.

“We’ve seen phishing go through the roof,” said Eva Velasquez, the CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a San Diego-based national nonprofit.

But knowledge is power. So here are three emerging phishing threats to look out for, according to internet safety experts. All three threats target key parts of people’s digital lives: email attachments that lead to fake login pages, multi-factor authentication trickery and deceptive calendar invites.

Spending a few minutes reading these pointers could help you avoid getting your ID or money stolen and save you countless hours of dealing with the fallout.

HTML attachments that open fake login pages

Imagine a busy professional who is in email action mode. In the past 30 minutes on a Saturday morning, he has filled out emailed liability waivers for his seven children’s summer camps, filed an expense report for work, answered a secure portal message from the veterinarian about his sick puppy’s prescription, skimmed 182 email subject lines and paid five bills from his email inbox, including a car insurance premium and his beloved cheese-of-the-month club.

Amid this flurry of inbound emails, ads, invoices and secure messages, he is working on autopilot: opening messages, skimming, clicking and signing in.

What a perfect opportunity.

Scammers are taking advantage of user distraction — and their trust — by sending emails with HTM or HTML attachments. When clicked, those open a browser file that looks like secure, familiar login page. These pages might look like secure invoice viewers, file-sharing services like DocuSign or Dropbox, or sign-in pages to platforms including Microsoft 365.

“Once the user enters their credentials, they are sent surreptitiously to the attacker’s server,” said Vlad Cristescu, the head of cybersecurity with ZeroBounce, a Florida company that helps businesses lower their rate of bounced marketing emails.

Why this method is especially insidious: “There isn’t a clickable link in the email, so standard email security filters (which scan for malicious URLs or attachments like PDFs and ZIPs) may not catch it,” Cristescu added.

To prevent this, he added, companies should “restrict HTML attachments unless essential, and users should treat unfamiliar HTML files the same way they’d treat a suspicious link — don’t open it unless you’re absolutely sure of the sender.”

If you do receive incoming communication with an HTML link or attachment, don’t engage, said Velasquez, with the ITRC.

“Don’t click on links, people. That’s the big, overarching message,” she said. Instead, go to the source: call the phone number on the back of your credit card, visit the bank in person.

Multifactor authentication tricks

If you are one of the many people who uses multifactor authentication, take note.

Multifactor authentication is still very helpful and should be used.

But Cristescu flagged one way that scammers are taking this tool — which is designed to make people’s online accounts more secure — and using it to slither in.

As a refresher, multifactor authentication is an added layer of protection that prevents data thieves from logging into your accounts if they have your username and password. It helps ensure that you’re the one who typed in your password when you log in, and not some scammer in the Philippines or Poughkeepsie.

To use multifactor authentication, you typically download an app, such as Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator. You register your sensitive online accounts, such as Facebook, bank or email, with that app. Then, every time you log into a registered website, the authenticator app generates a new, random code that you enter after your password as a second layer of verification.

With the rise of this protection, a new threat has emerged: Scammers who have your username and password can send log-in requests to your authenticator app. Next, the scammer can pose as an IT expert from your workplace and ask you to approve the log-in request.

If you fall for it, then boom — the scammer is in.

This technique “exploits a user’s frustration and trust in IT. If you’re receiving multiple (authenticator) prompts you didn’t initiate, that’s not a glitch – it’s an attack,” Cristescu said. He recommends pausing, never approving these unexpected requests and flagging the interaction with IT.

Velasquez added that if you get an authenticator notification and you didn’t just log in yourself, “That is a huge red flag. Stop and address it. Don’t ignore it.”

Anytime you interact with IT, be sure you’re the one initiating that contact, she added. If someone from IT calls or emails you, disconnect and reach back out using a trusted method, such as the same phone number you always dial.

Fake calendar invites

A third technique data thieves are using is calendar invites.

“I just get really very angry about this one,” Velasquez said. “It is super hard to detect.”

Here’s what to look out for. If you use an online calendar like Google calendar or the native iPhone calendar app, you might receive an invitation to an event you didn’t see coming. Sometimes these meetings are legitimate. Sometimes, they are not.

Scammers “are now sending meeting requests with malicious links embedded in the invite or ‘join’ button. These invitations sync directly into calendars and often go unquestioned,” according to ZeroBounce.

Scammers use calendar invites because they have “built-in credibility – they’re not usually scrutinized like emails,” Cristescu said. Look for meeting requests from unknown senders and vague event names like “Sync” or “Project Review,” he added.

In some jobs or roles, meetings routinely get added to calendars by other people — clients, prospects, coworkers, bosses, peers.

“I have gotten these repeatedly,” said Velasquez, with the ITRC. “Depending on your lifestyle and your job and how you work, these are going to be particularly challenging. They are real calendar invites. The problem is they have malicious software embedded in them — so when you click on portions of them, ‘Click to join,’ it’s like opening an attachment (or) clicking on a suspicious link. It’s the same principle.”

Cristescu, with ZeroBounce, shared this tip: “Treat those just like a phishing email. Disable auto-accept where possible and review every invite manually before clicking anything.”

Never stop questioning what lands in your inbox or calendar, Cristescu added. “Always verify the sender’s email address, ensure that any link you click matches the legitimate domain, and look out for subtle red flags like spelling errors or unusual formatting.”

A big picture pointer

“All three of these (scams) are so common that it has probably happened to every single person reading the article — at least one of them. That’s how ubiquitous these are,” Velasquez said.

She shared this broader thought: It’s less important to know how to respond to each scenario and more important to pause, be skeptical, double check.

It’s important to be ever more skeptical, because AI makes it easier and easier for thieves to create convincing ruses, Cristescu and Velasquez both said.

AI “really helps with making these phishing offers look and sound so much more legitimate,” Velasquez said. “And with the amount of data that is out there from public sources and from data breaches, it’s very easy to see what relationships people have.” Where you bank, where you do business — that is all fodder for someone to create a copycat page designed to trick you into logging in.

Adopt an “investigator mindset,” Velasquez said. Use this helpful reminder: the acronym STAR, which stands for Stop. Think. Ask questions or ask for help. Reassess.

The ITRC nonprofit can answer questions, for free, through phone and live chat. Toll-free phone: 888-400-5530. Live chat staffed by people, not bots:  https://www.idtheftcenter.org/victim-help-center/