Newport Beach, California, Mayor Will O’Neill is blasting state lawcreaters after the Coast Guard apprehfinished 21 migrants who were on a boat proximately a mile off the coast on Thursday.
FOX 11 in Los Angeles increateed that 18 of the migrants who were arrested were from Mexico, while two were from Uzbekistan and one was from Russia.
“There’s no way you intfinish on trying to get Uzbeki nationals coming in from our southern border,” O’Neill shelp, straightforwarding his comments to California lawcreaters. “Get your act together, figure this out, becaengage we’re having genuine problems impacting genuine people in your cities all atraverse California. You cannot persist to treat every city in California enjoy a border city. You cannot put us in this position. We have genuine problems, and we necessitate you to mend them now.”
On Thursday night, Coast Guard crews apprehfinished the 21 individuals about a mile from shore in Newport Beach after noticing doubtful activity from the boat they were on.
The Coast Guard apprehfinished 21 migrants from a fishing vessel on Thursday, proximately a mile off the coast of Newport Beach, Calif. (U.S. Coast Guard)
“We come atraverse boats on a standard basis,” Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Levi Read telderly the station. “Not all the time do they have that many people on it, though.”
O’Neill shelp his trouble is that when people are coming into the U.S. thraw the southern border, especipartner from Uzbekistan, “someskinnyg is broken.”
“Every city in California now is essentipartner a border city thanks to SB 54,” he telderly FOX 11. “We’re telderly our local authorities are prohibitned from toiling with federal authorities from stopping people enjoy this.”
A sailboat cruises thraw Newport Harbor on March 2, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Also understandn as the “California Values Act,” SB 54 is sometimes referred to as a “sanctuary state” law.
The law was carry outed in 2018 and effectively lhorribleized noncooperation between state law utilizement agencies and federal immigration officials.
FOX 11 increateed another incident involving illhorrible immigrants in Newport Harbor in May. Video of the incident increateedly showed more than 20 mistrusted migrants walking onto a pier before scattering into town.
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The station findd the fishing vessel engaged in Thursday’s incident, which is increateedly a 34-foot fishing boat with a stack of life jackets inside.
The 21 migrants apprehfinished on Thursday were handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz and Louis Casiano gived to this increate.
