Apparently, Carlsbadistan’s Ponto Beach is becoming a regular stop on the panga tour of Northside. On July 17, 2009, 20 “mexican nationals” were arrested after being dropped off by boat at Ponto. The boat and drivers, oddly enough, got away.
This morning, August 21, 2009, the entire scene was reenacted all over again, according to The US Customs and Border Protection website.
Early this morning, agents on patrol spotted a vessel, described as a panga boat, as it was traveling towards the shoreline of Ponto Beach in Carlsbad. The vessel dropped off 18 males and five females before fleeing the area. The subjects were quickly apprehended by Border Patrol agents with the assistance of Carlsbad police officers. The illegal aliens were taken into Border Patrol custody and sent to a Border Patrol station for processing . . . The United States Coast Guard and CBP Air and Marine units conducted a search of the area but were unable to locate the vessel.
Nice to know that pangas (and their captains) can just flow in and out of the country without ever getting caught, isn’t it? Just think if these boats arriving at Ponto Landing were filled with something more dangerous than simply men and women eager to work hard at bad jobs?
[Link: CBP.gov via a Carlsbadistan News Tipper]
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“Just think if these boats were filled with something more dangerous”
Yeah, just think how nice it would be if the Coast Guard would start doing they job they’re PAID TO DO
Hey Griff,
How about you give the Coast Guard a little more funding instead of cutting it and then we could go and patrol the shores. But with only 2 helos and very little money for fuel we have to make cuts somewhere. I guess we are too busy patroling the water and saving lives vice flying up and down the Carlsbad coastline looking for illegals. We have a large area of water to the south that is much closer to Mexico we are watching.