Newport Seaside, California, Mayor Will O’Neill is blasting state lawmakers after the Coast Guard apprehended 21 migrants who had been on a ship almost a mile off the coast on Thursday.
FOX 11 in Los Angeles reported that 18 of the migrants who had been detained had been from Mexico, whereas two had been from Uzbekistan and one was from Russia.
“There’s no approach you plan on making an attempt to guard Uzbeki nationals coming in from our southern border,” O’Neill stated, directing his feedback to California lawmakers. “Get your act collectively, determine this out, as a result of we’re having actual issues affecting actual individuals in your cities all throughout California. You can’t proceed to deal with each metropolis in California like a border metropolis. You can’t put us on this place. We now have actual issues, and we’d like you to repair them now.”
On Thursday night time, Coast Guard crews apprehended the 21 people a few mile from shore in Newport Seaside after noticing suspicious exercise from the boat they had been on.
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The Coast Guard apprehended 21 migrants from a fishing vessel on Thursday, almost a mile off the coast of Newport Seaside, Calif. (U.S. Coast Guard)
“We come throughout boats regularly,” Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Levi Learn informed the station. “Not on a regular basis have they got that many individuals on it, although.”
O’Neill stated his concern is that when persons are coming into the U.S. by means of the southern border, particularly from Uzbekistan, “one thing is damaged.”
“Each metropolis in California now’s basically a border metropolis because of SB 54,” he informed FOX 11. “We’re informed our native authorities are prohibited from working with federal authorities from stopping individuals like this.”
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A sailboat cruises by means of Newport Harbor on March 2, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Occasions by way of Getty Pictures)
Also called the “California Values Act,” SB 54 is usually known as a “sanctuary state” regulation.
The regulation was carried out in 2018 and successfully legalized noncooperation between state regulation enforcement businesses and federal immigration officers.
FOX 11 reported one other incident involving unlawful immigrants in Newport Harbor in Might. Video of the incident reportedly confirmed greater than 20 suspected migrants strolling onto a pier earlier than scattering into city.
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The station situated the fishing vessel utilized in Thursday’s incident, which is reportedly a 34-foot fishing boat with a stack of life jackets inside.
The 21 migrants apprehended on Thursday had been handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Safety.
Fox Information Digital’s Bradford Betz and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
