EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A migrant died at a Los Angeles hospital after being pulled from a smuggling boat about noon last Wednesday near San Clemente Island.
According to a U.S. Coast Guard news release, a good Samaritan reported to watchstanders with the Los Angeles-Long Beach Sector a suspected migrant smuggling vessel before a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations Marine crew spotted the boat about 14 miles west of the island.
CBP interdiction agents boarded the boat and identified 21 migrants aboard. A crew from the Coast Guard’s Los Angeles-Long Beach Sector then arrived on the scene to assist.
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On the boat, the Coast Guard crew located an unresponsive 56-year-old man and then began performing CPR.
The Coast Guard sent a helicopter from the Ventura station to conduct a medical evacuation. The Coast Guard said the aircrew hoisted the patient and continued CPR while they flew him to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Hospital staff was able to restore the patient’s pulse before he was later pronounced dead…