US Coast Guard triples fleet to prevent smuggling of undocumented migrants
By: Perla Shaheen
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Undocumented immigrants often get smuggled into California by boat, and Coast Guard officers are ready and able to forcibly stop smuggler boats, halting hundreds of undocumented immigrants on their journey into the U.S.
But not every incident escalates to that point. I rode along in one of Coast Guard’s search and rescue boats to see what goes into patrolling these waters.
“At this point, we’re pretty effective at identifying everything that comes across,” said Peter Nelson, the officer in charge for Coast Guard Station San Diego.
Nelson says the federal government has tripled their fleet of boats patrolling the water in the last couple months.
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