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If you thought the Biden border catastrophe was over — or that it was confined to locations like tiny, distant Eagle Pass, Texas — suppose again.
This week noticed a 20-foot panga boat — that’s an open-hull fishing skiff, for these not within the human trafficking commerce — make harbor in ultra-wealthy Newport Beach, damaging somebody’s yacht within the course of, and disgorge a group believed to quantity about a dozen illegals.
Bad enough: not even America’s open coastlines are protected from incursion.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom meets reporters exterior United Nations Headquarters in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. Kyle Mazza/CNP/INSTARimages
It will get worse, although.
The illegals scattered within the space across the harbor and have been picked up by a crew of what sure appear to be professional, practiced human traffickers and spirited off.
Understandably, native residents have been frightened. As one put it, “I love immigrants. I’m a granddaughter of an immigrant. But come here the right way. We have a right to know who’s here.”
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That common-sense view is held by most Americans, who specific broad help for legal immigration.
Sadly, the Democratic occasion on the state and national degree stays dedicated to what quantities to its single actual coverage thought: The US border, in any respect factors, should be successfully open.
That was formalized by Joe Biden actually on the primary day of his single time period; in blue cities and states across the nation sanctuary insurance policies hamper native law enforcement from co-operating with the Department of Homeland Security on eradicating illegals whereas offering beneficiant social providers to them — and in some circumstances, preferential legal therapy.
An individual rows a boat in Newport Beach, Calif., Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. William Liang for CA Post
California has been within the forefront of executing this ugly coverage, thanks to the hard-left lean of state and metropolis legislators in Los Angeles and elsewhere — to say nothing of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has develop into open-border advocate-in-chief primarily as a approach to “own” President Trump as he tries to generate political capital and heat for his ill-starred ‘28 run on the White House.
A DHS spokesperson accused Newsom of laying out a “welcome mat” for people just like the boat-jumpers. That is exactly right.
And why? So we are able to have more truck drivers with sham CDLs slaughtering households on the street?
Bigger cadres of intercourse offenders, like these swept up in a March ICE operation in LA?
Per DHS numbers, Newsom has failed to honor ICE detainers on more than 4,500 unlawful criminals simply since January of 2025.
But setting apart the native public security side, incursions like these — which require a lot more planning and precision than a fast land border leap in a distant desert space — current a horrific national security downside.
Per DHS numbers, Newsom has failed to honor ICE detainers on more than 4,500 unlawful criminals simply since January of 2025. Jon Putman for CA Post
These illegals had a boat and a crew of transporters prepared and ready for them once they landed, suggesting the operation had been organized upfront with a community already in place stateside.
Even if this group seems to be innocent, it’s past clear that the subsequent one won’t be (recall the handfuls of suspects on DHS terror watchlists who crossed during the Biden years).Given that we’re at present in a sizzling conflict with the world’s No. 1 terror sponsor, Iran, that must be a level of actual concern.
The Newport boat incursion is, in a technique, a hopeful signal.
President Trump’s crackdown on unlawful immigration has diminished inflows on the southern land border virtually to zero.
This, per Central District Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli (long one of the state’s sane voices within the problem), “They’ve become desperate and they’re trying to do ocean runs. It’s very dangerous and if they’re caught they will be prosecuted.”
That factors to one of the great lies concerning the Biden immigration posture: That it was one way or the other “humanitarian.”
A crane picks up sediment from the Newport Bay in Newport Beach, Calif., Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. William Liang for CA Post
In truth, the other is the case. Encouraging unlawful immigration powers human trafficking (and contours the pockets of cartels); immigrants when right here face financial and sexual exploitation; the Biden administration merely misplaced observe of close to 300,000 migrant children.
There is no signal that, past a few Dem mavericks like Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) and Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), the occasion is succesful in its present configuration of moderating on this problem.
In California, it’s onerous to discover a single distinguished elected Democrat who opposes the sanctuary insanity.
As long as that’s true, and regardless of the great success of the White House posture on the problem, count on more of this — wherever there may be any chance of bodily entry.
If it may possibly occur in Newport Beach, it may possibly occur anyplace.
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