California city is looking for border authorities on installing cameras to monitor beaches for ships with migrants
As others California cities Double the policies of the shrine of illegal immigrants, one coastal enclave wants to work directly with the border authorities to monitor their beaches 24 hours a day in an effort to prevent ships that carry illegal migrants.
San Clemente city leaders told the city manager Andy Hall earlier this month to coordinate with the US customs and border protection (CBP) to discuss installing and using existing cameras to observe the city 7 miles of coast.
Mayor Steve Knoblock told Fox News Digital that cameras were intended to deter illegal immigration and other criminal activities. Noticed that small fishing ships called Pangas often come to the shore to fall illegal migrants disappearing inside.
The woman walks the beach north of San Clemente’s dock as the waves collapse against the rocks just below the railway lines in San Clementia, California. (Mark Rightmire/Medianews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)
“In the last month or roughly, we have had a great increase in the number of pangs that have appeared on our beach,” he said. “This is happening and no one seems to notice it. No one seems to catch him. There is no ban, and we had them with much more frequency.”
The city has cameras at its beach council because of the problems with the safety of the sea, but none that controls the ocean, Knoblock said. He suggested turning the cameras to the water and adding technological upgrades. At the meeting of February 4, the City Council agreed to contact the US border patrol to inquire about working together on the water survey outside the city, the mayor said.
2021, American immigration and customs implementation (ICE) warned of increased visions of Pangas used for smuggling in southern California. Fishing ships smugglers use to transport migrants and illegal drugstoward the ice.
At the time, Ice said that about 90 migrants were caught along the Los Angeles County Coast on the Palos Verdes I San Pedro, Long Beach, Malibu, Santa Catalina Island and Newport Beach in Orange County.
In the last month, San Clemente has seen difficulties in small ships transporting migrants. In some cases, migrants are still on board when they were discovered, but in many cases the vessel were abandoned. Increasing may stem from Trump administration Severe border measures for the suppression of illegal land transitions to the United States, Knoblock said.
Panga ships are often used to smuggle illegal immigrants. (KTTV)
“President Trump has done a great job of securing the Mexican border in San Diego, but we get people from 150 countries to come with water,” Knoblock said. “It’s like an invasion of the ground stopped, but the sea invasion begins.”
IN American border patrol It manages the station and traffic control point in the North Straight of Interstate 5 in an effort to smuggle the smuggling of illegal immigrants and drugs away from the border area.
“Transnational criminal organizations are still exploiting a dangerous and often unpredictable maritime environment for smuggling people and other smuggling,” CBP spokesman told Fox News Digital, when asked about a potential camera project in San Clementa.
“In response, CBP will continue to evaluate the most effective combinations of workforce, infrastructure and technology for the interior of naval smuggling events, protection of coastal communities and bring criminal consequences to smugglers who give priority to profit over security.”
In addition to the smuggling of the vessel, the city had to fight the Chilean gangs that were targeting homes commit burning burglary.
“We had a rash of Chilean gangs. They are very organized,” Knoblock said. “They supervise the neighborhood. They enter and go out in five or ten minutes. We had them.”
Since 2017, it has been forbidden to cooperate with federal immigration officials after the adoption of the State Law of the Sanctuary known as the California Law on Values. However, some cities are pushing back.
The agent of US border patrol sitting in a beach vehicle near the US-Mexico border in San Diego. (Getty Images)
Huntington Beach, a city north of San Clementa, is sue Government Gavin News and Attorney General Rob Bonta, because of the law and recently declared himself a city that is not Sanctuar. San Clemente refused to join the lawsuit, Knoblock said, stating a proposed award of $ 100,000 from the City General Fund for the costs of litigation.
Despite the Law on the State Sanctuary, the San Clemente camera project with border authorities would not include local authorities, Knoblock said.
The boat is washed on the shore on the beach of Malibu (KTTV)
The city does not have its own police force and is served by the Sheriff Orange County Department. Sheriff Don Barnes said the execution of immigration is the duty of the Federal Government.
Instead, San Clemente would work directly with the border authorities.
