A group of undocumented immigrants interrupted a model’s video shoot in Miami Beach this month as they ran from a boat to shore in the back ground of where the woman was filming.
Ekaterina Juskowski was filming her model friend stroll down the beach in a sequined dress at about 6 a.m. July 10, when she noticed a boat approaching the shore.She initially thought it was scuba divers so she stopped the video, but she soon realized it was about nine migrants running toward the sand.
She turned her camera back on when she saw the men pour out of a boat and leaving it behind in the water.
“That’s a testament to how confident these organizations are – what we call transnational criminal organizations – who smuggle criminals and narcotics right onto the beach,”” U.S. Border Patrol spokesperson Frank Miller told the New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
“There has been an increase in known maritime smuggling in Florida – from Key West all along the Florida coast – from fiscal year 2014 to now,” he said.
Miller said that the coastline in Florida is so extensive that “it’s impossible to cover with just Border Patrol agents” so the organization has teamed up with the Coast Guard, law-enforcement agencies and foreign allies, but “it’s difficult to get a solid level of situational awareness on what’s coming in.”Send this to a friend