Posted on 05/18/2021 11:55:41 AM PDT by gattaca
Border Patrol agents rescued nearly two dozen illegal aliens from what officials suspect was a smuggling boat in the early hours of Monday off the shores of Point Loma, California, Fox News reported.
A Border Patrol representative told the outlet that the agency spotted the incoming unlawful entrants around 2:50 a.m. local time when an agent noticed a “panga type vessel” near the rocks off Sunset Cliff through vehicle-based video surveillance.
The Coast Guard deployed a small boat to intercept the incoming vessel, and Coast Guard officials tried to get in contact with the operator of the panga.
However, the operator ignored the Coast Guard’s commands to stop, according to Fox News.
Then the panga’s engine died. The boat was drifting nearer to the coast. Officials feared the boat would capsize like a similar boat bringing in undocumented aliens earlier this month, resulting in three fatalities.
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San Diego. Undoubtedly launched from the Mexican Baja coast near or south of Tijuana.
The number coming is only going to increase, if 3,000 a day didn’t get your attention, wait until it is 10,000 day.
So they brought them to port, put them up in a hotel and fed them a steak dinner.
So?
The illegals were stopped, given food, clothing, water, a new car, money, a credit card, a cell phone, a name of a lawyer who will represent them for nothing, and directions to their temporary housing where they will stay while their permanent home is being built.
Welcome to America ...the BP will help you in
Exactly ...just learn Spanish and shut up
One time about 2 years ago I was staying at a beach front hotel in Rosarito, about 25 miles south of the border, and I saw a panga (PAWN-ga) launched into the surf at high tide. A large SUV drove onto the beach and launched the panga into the surf. The panga was about 20 feet in length. There was a second panga just beyond the surf line. The second panga threw a line to the first panga and helped tow the first panga out beyond the waves. There were two passengers and one crewman on the launched boat. They did not have any fishing gear with them.
I don’t know how they get 24 people into one of those little boats. The closest anchorage with a piers south of the border would be Ensenada, about 50 or 60 miles south of the border. The pangas have been landing on beaches in San Diego County for years. I read about one that landed up in Malibu.
Are there any boaters out there who can figure out how the smugglers do it?
The same way as Contadina "gets eight great tomatoes in those itty bitty cans."
From FunTrivia website:
It was Contadina. "How did they get those 8 great tomatoes in that itty bitty can" was a jingle used in TV and radio commercials of the 1950s (sung by Ace Brigode & His Fourteen Virginians), and variations of the slogan appeared in newspaper ads.
I remember that commercial.
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