As federal authorities shut down once-busy human smuggling routes through increased enforcement along the US Southern Border with Mexico, the cartels are increasingly shifting their smuggling operations offshore.
Evidence of that is becoming more apparent as US law enforcement officers encounter more cartel human smugglers at sea.
Recent encounters include:
US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Marine Interdiction Agents shooting out the engine of a cartel smuggling boat that refused to stop off Puerto Rico with 16 Dominicans aboard (see photo above).
17 illegal aliens from Mexico apprehended on a boat spotted by a US Navy ship running without lights at 2:40 in the morning near San Clemente Island, California. The photo above was taken from a CBP boat that successfully pursued the smuggling vessel after the Navy alerted them to its presence.
12 illegal aliens from China, Haiti, Brazil, and the Bahamas (seen in the photo above) apprehended by CBP Agents aboard a 25-foot cabin cruiser running without lights 11 miles east of Juno Beach, Florida. The Coast Guard and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the search for the smuggling vessel, which had departed from Freeport, Bahamas, for Florida earlier in the evening.
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An illegal alien from Mexico was apprehended by US Border Patrol Agents in San Diego after landing on a beach there on a personal watercraft (seen in the photo above). A cartel guide who was directing this human smuggling run fled back to Mexico.
That’s 49 illegal aliens apprehended in four separate sea smuggling attempts off both coasts in recent days.
Should the US increase offshore patrols to cut off these smuggling routes?
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
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