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Title: 20 Illegal Immigrants Detained In Boat: Boat Detained Off Mission Beach
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NBC 10 News
URL Source: http://www.10news.com/news/25270765/detail.html
Published: Oct 4, 2010
Author: staff writer
Post Date: 2010-10-04 12:59:55 by Murron
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20 Illegal Immigrants Detained In Boat: Boat Detained Off Mission Beach SAN DIEGO -- Twenty illegal immigrants were detained by authorities Monday morning in a small boat off the coast of Mission Beach. The San Diego Police Department was first to respond on the scene. The effort was coordinated between the police department and Border Patrol. The border patrol is still seeking two individuals also believed to have been on the boat.
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San Diego Police are looking for at least two suspected illegal immigrants, after another panga boat washed ashore at Mission Beach on Monday morning. Twenty-one people were detained after their boat washed ashore on Mission Beach. Border Patrol agents say they were tracking the boat before it came ashore. Agents also got a call around 2:30 a.m. from a citizen who reported seeing the boat wash ashore, packed with people. Border patrol and San Diego police worked together to arrest more than 20 people. This boat is just the latest in a string of similar incident where panga boats, loaded with immigrants and sometimes drugs have come ashore on San Diego's coastline. There is a Homeland Security task force made up of several agencies that are working together to try and crack down on maritime smuggling. Border Patrol agents say with increased security at U.S./Mexico border on land, they're seeing a huge increase in the number of smuggling attempts over water. These Panga boats are supplied by the Mexican government for "fishing". They're mostly used for smuggling everything from guns into Mexico, to drugs, dissidents, and undesirable criminals into the US.
Illegal Immigrants Wash Ashore at Mission Beach
By MONICA DEAN
Updated 9:00 AM PDT, Mon, Oct 4, 2010
First Published: Oct 4, 2010 8:51 AM PDT
Ocean Beach, San Diego
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