Feds Foil Boatload of Asian Immigrants from Entering U.S. on Orange County Beach
Fourteen foreign nationals, mostly Asian, made it about 80 nautical miles from Mexico into the U.S. on Jan. 28 before landing their boat on an Orange County beach inside the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station, running across Pacific Coast Highway and attempting to hide near Huntington Harbor.
After the military bases security witnessed the breach and notified the Huntington Beach Police Department and its counterpart in Seal Beach, officers found and arrested 11 Asian males, an Asian female and two Latinosnone of whom had government permission to enter this country.
Local officials turned the immigrants over to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, who transported them to the San Clemente Border Patrol Station for processing.
Inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana, a federal agent with the California Border Enforcement Security Task Force (LA-BEST) filed paperwork against three of the people apprehended: Julio Cesar Murillo-Arce (conspiring to bring illegal aliens to the U.S.; Jinglong Lin (illegal re-entry in the U.S. after having been deported in the past); and Diego Heriberto Hernandez-Ramirez (who is facing the same charge as Lin).
Read more: https://ocweekly.com/asian-immigrants-boat-smuggling/
Interesting comment at link:
If only the wall had been built, that boat never would have stood a chance