Posted on 12/03/2009 2:20:27 PM PST by Beaten Valve
A small boat carrying 21 illegal immigrants tried to flee from federal agents before being stopped Wednesday morning about 14 miles off the La Jolla coast, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said today. The 25-foot boat had been spotted farther up the coast near Leucadia by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. A Blackhawk helicopter and a Midnight Express Interceptor vessel were dispatched to help track down the skiff-like boat, known as a panga. The boat's driver was arrested as a suspected smuggler. The other people – 20 men and one woman, all of them Mexican citizens – were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol. Smugglers operating from beaches near Baja California's Rosarito Beach frequently subject illegal immigrants to dangerous and arduous journeys by sea. In this case, the suspected smuggler at least provided the immigrants with flotation devices, authorities said.
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Well,...good job by the Coast Guard...
On land- shoot, shovel & shut up. At sea- shoot, sink & shut up.
Sending ‘em back just lets ‘em try again.
Imagine if they’d landed in La Jolla! There goes the neighborhood!!!!!
La Jolla is where Romney bought one of his new houses last year, it looks like he is moving his “Sanctuary Mansion” there to get away from the Boston Globe that busted him for his illegals and a year later busted him for the second time, STILL USING THE SAME CREW! for an 11 year total of employing Guatemalan illegals.
Are these these the missing Denmark scientists? AlGore also cancelled his speech in Copenhagen. So very strange days. Illegal aliens all on a boat.
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Using boats on the west coast to smuggle people from Mexico is a relatively uncommon thing. I’d read this as encouraging news that our border enforcement on land must be getting to be more effective.
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