You saw correctly. You should see the idiotic comments on a Youtube video of the incident. One dude said that due to the hull shape of that boat, all the engines in the world wouldn't propel it any faster than 14kn to 17 kn........LOL!
Another idiot said that with 11 passengers, the boat would have sunk.....
The constitution only applies to American citizens not every foreigner who sneaks into the country. A trial costs 100G if every one of the millions of illegal aliens here got a trail before deportation it would make enforcement of immigration laws completely impossible