We are seeing more of this all the time now. I guess they are trying to make it in case they can get amnesty.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-b ... 7299.story

13 illegal immigrants caught in boat off coast of Palm Beach
By Michael LaForgia, The Palm Beach Post

3:40 p.m. EDT, May 4, 2010


PALM BEACH
In the dead of night, federal agents intercepted a boat loaded with illegal immigrants after a high-seas chase that ended 10 miles east of Palm Beach.

Seven of the 13 people hoping to sneak onto Florida soil Thursday had previously been deported from the U.S., according to an affidavit filed Monday in U.S. District Court.

About 7 p.m. Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents got a tip about a smuggling sortie on board a boat named the Mary Carla. A Border Patrol aircraft spotted the boat about 11 a.m. and followed the boat until federal agents boarded it after midnight.

The boat's captain, Kelsey James McQueen, 41, of the Bahamas, told immigration agents he was to be paid $7,000 to ferry the immigrants between Nassau and Palm Beach County.

The passengers, who came from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, told authorities they paid between $2,700 and $8,000 to smugglers named "Yellow" or "Rambo."