By Ed Baier /The Beachcam
The US Border Patrol has been working, patrolling, and observing in the 92106 – 92107 zip code areas for the past week. What’s going on? Why have they set up shop in these particular areas of San Diego County?
Is there a new Border Patrol Sector that we the public don’t know about?
On the second day of my observations, again the Border Patrol was seen in Sector Point Loma being a visual deterrent to anyone of Latino Heritage.
I ask again, why are they in the area? Why has the border been expanded to a urban neighborhood were Hispanics work very hard every day for the people that live in these upper/upper middle class neighborhoods? Why hasn’t the public been notified of this border area expansion? What’s going on???
I have noticed the same thing down at the beach. It has seemed odd.
Simple. It’s a continued disenfranchisement of the working poor as well as racist. This territory has been Hispanic and indigenous for at least 600 years. The white border has been imposed for around 100 years. Every city name, place name and regional name in the southwest is Spanish and yet we treat Spanish speakers as if they were foreigners who don’t belong.
It’s racist and colonialism 101.
Woke?
No, just Awake and aware of the truth of history.
Racists are being disenfranchised? ? Wouldn’t that be awesome tho.
They are clearly waiting for someone to post something negative about the Tangerine-in-Chief so that person can be quickly snatched up, sent to Louisiana, and then deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador without any hint of due process anywhere to be found. Rumor has it that there are several nefarious type peoples in those two zip codes.
I would guess it is in reference to the uptick in landed smuggling boats in the area as of late. Last sunday they (border patrol) were blazing the dog beach area…. sirens blaring and skidding tires with engines revved. There was even an agent running full speed after someone but never caught them. A boat had landed at dog beach and I heard 20 people scattered into the neighborhood. I saw one in the back of a border patrol truck…
They have been camped along sunset cliffs with binoculars looking for approaching boats I would gather…
I am not sure if they’re breaking jurisdiction laws… and if they are I doubt that’s an issue under current circumstances.
They’re probably looking for another unmarked smuggling boat to come ashore at OB, like the three I’ve seen in the past.
As the mainland border barriers have tightened, more and more desperate people take to dangerous avenues into the US, like traversing over deserts and mountains or taking boats — which is where the SD coast comes in.
The entire west coast is a border. Pangas have been landing in OB for years. How about when the trawler broke up on the cliffs a few years ago, with multiple fatalities? Read the news. The entire South border of SD is Latino too. Are they not hard working? Not sure of your perceptions
Your intimidated now, wait until they bring back the checkpoint on I-5 just to leave SD county :(
Is this a serious question ? They are there on the peninsula looking for pangas. Does anybody watch the news anymore? Not unlike somebody going to the top of Point Loma to look for whales, but you can see panga boats Crossing a further distance of your up high and you need to be down at the coast if you’re going to be able to catch them when and if they land.
Hey, I’m sure glad that ICE and the Border Patrol have plenty of money, enough for agents and vehicles to be perched on top of the cliffs for long periods of time looking for pangas, while entire sections of the Federal government are being shut down because of waste and fraud. (Is your question serious? Do you not think that we at the Rag watch or read the news?)
Actually, “Obecian” – if you had watched the news, you would have seen how ICE is lacking in the numbers rounded up and have fallen below the Biden administration’s numbers of people deported — bottom line: they need more migrants to help boost their numbers so as to look good for the giant tangerine. (Actually it’s spelled “OBcean” — where OB meets the ocean.)
Considering the number of pangas, both manned and unmanned that have landed or shipwrecked near the Ocean Beach and La Jolla beaches, it makes a lot of sense to have the Border Patrol near those areas. Those pictures of people landing at Windansea and scattering immediately into cars and vans that are waiting for them at the beach, are indicative of the scope and sophistication of the problem. It seems simple to me – they should be where the action is.
The entire coast is a border. Well within federal jurisdiction. If you are afraid of losing your gardener then take care of your multi million dollar mansion yourself. The rich have always felt above the law, whether a traffic stop or anything else. We either enforce our laws or suffer because of our ignorance. The Border Patrol has arrested people from 147 different counties within a 12 month span. To call their actions racist, is racism in it’s purest form. The Border Patrol makes thousands of arrests for other than Immigration every year and turn over these violators to local agencies without thanks. Every country has a Border Patrol and why ours is vilified is a mystry to me.
I keep trying to point out to BP those sneaky Canadians that pop up in our region that have to have snuck in. They just won’t listen.
I know you’re just joking, but I know of at least 2 Canadians who a decade or so ago sneaked into OB, altered their accents to sound like Southern Californians, got local jobs, had sex with locals, did drugs, and tried to rabble rouse OBceans into getting concerned about the local environment and even claimed that SeaWorld was lying, that the city was ignoring the waste dump in Mission Bay, that OB should boycott Starbucks, and other outrageous assertions.
A lot of them really have the golden ticket, my younger brother’s best friend proud graduate of Eastlake high school class of 2019, started at CPB the following year, past 5 years with OT, he has never earned less than $200k per year, not a bad gig for a high school graduate.
Reporting from Windansea beach, I see a border control vehicle almost every morning/day along with a police officer or undercover. This has been happening for a few weeks now, in the 5 years I’ve lived here, never seen one before.
There moving BP officers to other coastal locations because the Military is now helping patrol the border fence areas. Marshal Law will soon follow I bet.
The border wall expansion in San Diego was completed in 2019. Following the expansion of the border wall near San Diego, drowning deaths in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego rose sharply, with 33 deaths reported from 2020 to 2023.
Other Drownings:
A 30% increase in drownings was also observed in irrigation canals along the border after the wall expansion.
Other Deaths:
The study also found a fivefold jump in traumatic injuries following border wall expansion in San Diego.
What a great Christian country we are, huh?
Dang, somebody is paranoid! Disenfranchisement of the working poor? WTH? More like disenfranchisement of illegal aliens!
Why is BP posting up along Sunset Cliffs? Because that’s where illegal alien smugglers have been dumping people!!!
I saw a guy on a hotel pedal boat 50 yards off the break heading north at Sunset Cliffs. He had a huge duffle bag on the back behind his seat. It was super foggy and occasional sets were going head high. Crazy!
I recently saw a boat pull up in OB and dudes jump off and run to land. I’ve missed boats doing the same. it seems frequent. That is why they are here.
If you are a citizen and they stop you for no reason, tell them to get lost. If they compromise your rights, sue them.
However, it’s either we have a border or we don’t. And if we have a border, common sense says the border would be patrolled. Maybe someday we will all live in an open border society where Ai and androids take care of all our daily tasks and needs. Tourism instead of employment will be the driving force for all people to travel. But at this point, it is the Rich and the Rest of Us. The rich and powerful love borders. Borders require law enforcement.
As for the border, my recollection is that the Border Patrol has jurisdiction anywhere in the U.S. within 100 miles of any U.S. border. Not that the current regime cares about boundaries….