Coast Guard detains more than 20 migrants on boat off California coast: report

Newport Beach, California, Mayor Will O’Neill is blasting authorities lawmakers aft the Coast Guard apprehended 21 migrants who were connected a vessel astir a mile disconnected the seashore connected Thursday.

FOX 11 successful Los Angeles reported that 18 of the migrants who were detained were from Mexico, portion 2 were from Uzbekistan and 1 was from Russia.

"There’s nary mode you mean connected trying to support Uzbeki nationals coming successful from our confederate border," O’Neill said, directing his comments to California lawmakers. "Get your enactment together, fig this out, due to the fact that we’re having existent problems affecting existent radical successful your cities each crossed California. You cannot proceed to dainty each metropolis successful California similar a borderline city. You cannot enactment america successful this position. We person existent problems, and we request you to hole them now."

On Thursday night, Coast Guard crews apprehended the 21 individuals astir a mile from enactment successful Newport Beach aft noticing suspicious enactment from the vessel they were on.

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The Coast Guard apprehended 21 migrants from a sportfishing vas connected Thursday, astir a mile disconnected the seashore of Newport Beach, Calif. (U.S. Coast Guard)

"We travel crossed boats connected a regular basis," Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Levi Read told the station. "Not each the clip bash they person that galore radical connected it, though."

O’Neill said his interest is that erstwhile radical are coming into the U.S. done the confederate border, particularly from Uzbekistan, "something is broken."

"Every metropolis successful California present is fundamentally a borderline metropolis acknowledgment to SB 54," helium told FOX 11. "We’re told our section authorities are prohibited from moving with national authorities from stopping radical similar this."

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A sailboat cruises done Newport Harbor connected March 2, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Also known arsenic the "California Values Act," SB 54 is sometimes referred to arsenic a "sanctuary state" law.

The instrumentality was implemented successful 2018 and efficaciously legalized noncooperation betwixt authorities instrumentality enforcement agencies and federal migration officials.

FOX 11 reported different incidental involving amerciable immigrants successful Newport Harbor successful May. Video of the incidental reportedly showed much than 20 suspected migrants walking onto a pier earlier scattering into town.

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The presumption located the sportfishing vas utilized successful Thursday’s incident, which is reportedly a 34-foot sportfishing vessel with a stack of beingness jackets inside.

The 21 migrants apprehended connected Thursday were handed implicit to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.