Several immigrants arrested on Carlsbad beach

By Debbi Baker, UNION-TRIBUNE
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 7:27 a.m.

CARLSBAD — Several suspected illegal immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally by boat were taken into custody early Wednesday on a North County beach.

Agents with the Border Patrol rounded up the group just after 1:00 a.m. on South Carlsbad State Beach just south of Palomar Airport Road, said Border Patrol Agent Michael Jimenez.

Nineteen men and one woman, ages 24 to 55, who were all from Mexico were arrested, Jimenez said. Two of those were apprehended on the boat that had left the shore and was stopped and seized by agents, the agent said.

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