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Migrants turn to the sea to enter US illegally

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer – Thu Aug 26, 1:08 pm ET

SAN DIEGO – The speedboat is about three miles offshore when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent cuts the engine to drift on the current in quiet darkness, hoping for the telltale signs of immigrant smuggling — a motor's whirr or sulfur exhaust fumes.
"It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and the haystack is the Pacific Ocean," agent Tim Feige says, minutes before sunrise.
This is a new frontier for illegal immigrants entering the United States — a roughly 400-square-mile ocean expanse that stretches from a bullring on the shores of Tijuana, Mexico, to suburban Los Angeles.
In growing numbers, migrants are gambling their lives at sea as land crossings become even more arduous and likely to end in arrest. Sea interdictions and arrests have spiked year-over-year for three years, as enforcement efforts ramp up to meet the challenge.
While only a small fraction of border arrests are at sea, authorities say, heightened enforcement on land, and a bigger fence, is making the offshore route more attractive..................>>>>...............>>>>...............http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100826/ap_on_re_us/us_sea_smuggling
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Like this in what?-----new.....please....after 9/11 they just 'happen' to find boats full of cocaine while searching for 'terrorists???????


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