Newsom visits California-Mexico border for security announcement NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

Gov. Gavin Newsom visited the California-Mexico border in San Diego County Thursday to highlight construction at one of the state’s land port of entries.

The news conference originally scheduled for noon was delayed following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California that triggered a tsunami warning affecting 5 million Californians. The governor was being briefed on that situation, his office said.

The governor called on the Biden administration to help secure more federal resources to finish the new port of entry in San Diego County before President-elect Trump takes office in January. Newsom’s news conference included an update on construction of a road to the new Otay Mesa East Port of Entry that will help facilitate construction of the long-delayed project that started in the 1990s.

Funding and project management have been two hurdles, Newsom said.

“What we’ve done is we’ve gone back over and over again to Washington, D.C., and we’ve been successful in getting …