{"id":5898,"date":"2009-07-17T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2009-10-27T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T14:54:31","slug":"the-ponto-boat-peoples-dawn-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5898","title":{"rendered":"The Ponto Boat People&#8217;s Dawn Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine spending the night at sea in a small boat, crusing up on shore at <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> Ponto beach at 4:40 AM thinking you&#8217;re in the land of opportunity, and blamo, you&#8217;re spotted by a US Customs and Border Protection agent and arrested. That&#8217;s exactly what happened to 20 &#8220;Mexican nationals&#8221; this morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The group included 14 men, five women and one teenage boy. They were wearing life vests and got to shore about 4:40 a.m., officials said. Among those arrested was a person whom authorities believe was a guide who was going to assist the group once they reached land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the guys driving the boat and running the business to Ponto Landing? Oh, they got away no problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.signonsandiego.com\/news\/breaking\/2009\/07\/smuggled_group_arrested_at_sou.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Deigo Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine spending the night at sea in a small boat, crusing up on shore at Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Ponto beach at 4:40 AM thinking you&#8217;re in the land of opportunity, and blamo, you&#8217;re spotted by a US Customs and Border Protection agent and arrested. That&#8217;s exactly what happened to 20 &#8220;Mexican nationals&#8221; this morning. The group included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6557,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/6557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}