At least eight people were killed when two suspected smuggling boats approached a San Diego beach and one capsized, and crews are searching Sunday for an estimated seven additional victims, authorities said.
Elliot Spagat and Gregory Bull, Associated PressAt least eight people have died after two boats capsized near San Diego's Black Beach, according to emergency officialsEight people were killed when two migrant smuggling boats approached a San Diego beach amid heavy fog and one capsized in the surf, authorities said Sunday, calling it one of the deadliest human smuggling operations ever in the U.S.
Coast Guard and San Diego Fire-Rescue crews pulled the bodies of eight adults from the water, but thick fog hampered the search for additional victims. Hundreds of maritime smuggling incidents occur every year and Saturday's accident was one of the deadliest involving migrants in the U.S., said Eric Lavergne, a Border Patrol spokesperson. In May 2021, a packed boat carrying migrants capsized and broke apart in powerful surf along the rocky San Diego coast, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others.
Surf was modest late Saturday, with swells around 3 feet , but Gartland said the area has hidden dangers. A pandemic rule scheduled to end May 11 denies migrants a chance to seek asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19 but enforcement has fallen disproportionately on Mexicans, Hondurans, Guatemalans and El Salvadorans because those have been the only nationalities that Mexico agreed to take back.
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