San Diego, California – The Coast Guard announced Thursday that one of its cutters intercepted a small boat carrying 13 people just off the coast of San Diego.
At about 5:45 in the morning, the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour spotted and stopped a 25-foot cuddy cabin roughly 23 miles west of Point Loma. A boarding team discovered ten adults and three minors onboard. According to officials, all three children were traveling with their mother.
The group told authorities they were from Guatemala and Mexico—one person claiming Guatemalan nationality and the other twelve identifying as Mexican nationals. Coast Guard officials confiscated the boat, detained the passengers, and later turned them over to another Department of Homeland Security agency for processing…