'Once the rhetoric started with the wall, it definitely picked up in the maritime,' said a senior U.S. law enforcement official.
Fireman Patrick Saragoza ties off a fender aboard a Coast Guard vessel during a patrol off the coast of Southern California in November 2018. By Dan Lamothe Dan Lamothe Reporter covering the Pentagon and the U.S.
On Sunday, the 87-foot Coast Guard patrol boat USCGC Petrel stopped a vessel with 12 migrants from Mexico aboard near California’s southern maritime border. On Tuesday, a Customs and Border Protection team on a high-speed coastal interceptor vessel stopped another group, disabling a boat with gunfire after it failed to stop, and detaining eight more migrants, Thompson said.
“We’ve been busy out here,” Scott said. “Once the rhetoric started with the wall, it definitely picked up in the maritime.” Across Southern California, 1,022 migrants were intercepted at sea in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Coast Guard officials have said. That was up from 213 in 2017 and 142 in 2016.
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