San Diego area leaders called on the federal government to beef up border enforcement after another suspected migrant boat landing was caught on camera in Carlsbad.
Leaders in the San Diego area called for stronger border enforcement Monday evening after a motorboat loaded with suspected illegal immigrants ran ashore on a Carlsbad beach over the weekend. 'We have no idea who they are, we have no idea where they are, and these people were not vetted at all,' San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said at a press conference Monday evening, calling the boat landing a 'coordinated effort.
Migrants have long sneaked into the U.S. by way of the Pacific Ocean, but over the last three years, California has seen an 'exponential increase in maritime smuggling,' Brandon Tucker, director of Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations in San Diego, said. Since fiscal year 2020, maritime smuggling events — which can also include trafficking drugs and other contraband — in California have increased nearly 140%, according to CBP.
That happens all the time,' El Cajon Mayor and congressional candidate Bill Wells told Fox News Digital. While out sailing, Wells said he and his family had to throw life preservers to a group of suspected migrants whose boat had capsized. 'If I’m seeing that in the harbor on the one time a year that I go out … you know it’s happening every single day,' he said.
The fact that many people have come here is primarily because we put out the red carpet,' he said. Also on Monday, Democratic Rep. Mike Levin, whose district includes Carlsbad, called on House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring to a vote a resolution doubling the range in which Customs and Border Protection agents can operate along the coast, from 12 to 24 nautical miles.
Land border encounters in Southern California have also increased dramatically in recent years. So far, the San Diego sector has seen more than 185,000 encounters in fiscal year 2024, up nearly 70% from the same period in 2023, according to CBP data.
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