Smuggling boat tragedy off San Diego is latest in deadly surge of ocean border crossings ^77.4%

Los Angeles Times - By Alex Riggins, Tammy Murga - 3/13/2023, 8:05 PM

SAN DIEGO — Just after midnight one Friday in late October 2021, the captain of a fishing boat sailing nearly 100 miles off the San Diego coastline saw a faint light in the distance. In what a Coast Guard pilot later described as a miracle, the captain had spotted the occupants of a disabled, overloaded fishing boat signaling for help.... more