Migrant workers turn to the ocean to enter the U.S. illegally

Friday, August 27, 2010

SAN DIEGO -- The speedboat is about three miles offshore when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent cuts the engine to drift on the current in quiet darkness, hoping for the telltale signs of immigrant smuggling -- a motor's whir or sulfur exhaust fumes.

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