
<p>Perhaps driven by President Trump&#8217;s successful shuttering of the US-Mexican border, California Coast Guard officials are seeing a tremendous uptick in illegals trying to enter the US by boat through the Pacific coastline.</p>



<p>Coast Guard captains patrolling the Southern California coast are seeing an influx of migrant crossings by boat — and with them, more foreign nationals from US adversary countries. Over the last 90 days, the Coast Guard has recorded about 200 migrant boat encounters near the San Diego coast, amounting to approximately two migrant boat interventions per day, officials told Fox News.</p>



<p>“We see a myriad of elderly, male, female, children,” Coast Guard District 11 Capt. Jason Hagen told Fox News Digital. “We’re starting to see an uptick in other nationalities, as well, which is a…national security concern because it’s not just your economic Mexicans looking to come to the United States for work. It’s also … bad actors coming from other countries. We’ve seen nationalities to include Chinese, Russian, Uzbekistani, Pakistani. It’s really all over the place.”</p>



<p>Hagen added that 10 or 15 years ago, most boats carried migrants from Mexico.</p>



<p>The Coast Guard captain attributes the recent uptick in boat encounters and “landing” encounters, when Coast Guardsmen find beached boats with abandoned life jackets, to increased land border security under the Trump administration. ;</p>



<p>“What you’ve seen in the news certainly has an effect on the maritime environment,” Hagen explained. “It’s kind of like squeezing a balloon — you squeeze the balloon, and the air pushes to the other side, right? Well, that’s the same thing that’s happening with the migrant flow. They’re locking down the land border pretty good … where they used to get thousands a day. Now, they’re now down in the hundreds a day. So, the migrants have to go somewhere. The smugglers have to move their operations somewhere. And we&#8217;re starting to see an uptick in the maritime environment.</p>



<p>Hagen also noted the dangers of smuggling activity at sea.</p>



<p>“Just last night … we had a case where we interdicted a vessel 20 miles offshore with 16 people on board who … their boat was disabled at sea, and they [were] at sea for two days with no food or water. … Had we not found them, they could have just continued drifting west and further into the Pacific Ocean.”</p>



<p>In February, the ;Coast Guard San Diego ;announced that the Cutter Waesche crew offloaded more than 37,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $275 million in San Diego.</p>



<p>The offload was the result of 11 separate suspected drug smuggling vessel interdictions between December and February.</p>



<p>Hagen said the influx of migrant boats along the San Diego coast has not significantly overwhelmed Guardsmen and, in fact, has shone a spotlight on the issue and brought more resources to his team.</p>



<p>He said the Coast Guard wants to strengthen its presence at the southern coastline “to protect the border security and territorial integrity of the United States.”</p>



<p><strong>California’s Sanctuary Cities Still Refuse to Cooperate</strong></p>



<p>Despite the mounting crisis on the California coast, the State’s “sanctuary cities” like San Diego still refuse to cooperate with ICE. San Diego’s Board of Supervisors recently voted in favor of a resolution that says the county will not provide assistance or cooperation to ICE, “including by giving ICE agents access to individuals or allowing them to use County facilities for investigative interviews or other purposes, expending County time or resources responding to ICE inquiries or communicating with ICE regarding individuals’ incarceration status or release dates, or otherwise participating in any civil immigration enforcement activities.”</p>



<p>Try as these blue cities may to protect illegals and thwart President Trump his promised crackdown on illegal migrants is working. In the first nine days of Trump’s second term, ICE arrested more than 7,400 illegal immigrants and placed nearly 6,000 ICE detainers on individuals believed to be in the country illegally.</p>

Coast Guard Says Immigrants are Storming the California Shores
