Boat Smuggling Picks Up by San Diego
"On any given night, small fishing boats from Mexico are puttering up the San Diego County coast, unlighted and so dangerously overloaded with human cargo that their hulls are barely above water," the San Diego Union Tribune reports. "Immigration authorities say there are cells of Mexican smuggling organizations that dedicate themselves to the maritime human smuggling trade, a trend that has grown dramatically in this region over the past three years."