8 Migrants Caught By Coast Guard Off Point Loma

Migrants Were Turned Over To Border Patrol

POSTED: 10:50 am PDT November 6, 2010

SAN DIEGO -- Eight Mexican migrants in a broken-down boat were caught by the Coast Guard off Point Loma, authorities said Saturday.

A Coast Guard crew on a routine boat patrol found the immigrants' 17-foot motor boat two miles south of Point Loma just before 2 a.m. Friday, said Henry Dunphy, spokesman for the Coast Guard.

The crew called in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection boat crew, which determined the people were from Mexico, Dunphy said.


The Coast Guard brought the immigrants and their boat to San Diego, and the people were handed over to Border Patrol.

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