U.S. border police nab migrants with dive scooters

Tim Gaynor -

border police nabbed two wet-suit clad illegal immigrants from Mexico who used self-propelled underwater “dive scooters” to enter California, authorities said.

The two males, aged 38 and 16, were spotted by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter crew late on Wednesday as they walked up Imperial Beach, a few miles south of San Diego, clutching the dive scooters, the Border Patrol said in a news release.

“That area where they were apprehended is very close to the international border,” San Diego sector Border Patrol spokesman Michael Jimenez told Reuters.

“These devices can be used to come north along the coastline and steer into shore ... where they can meet someone who will pick them up in a vehicle and further their entrance into the United States,” he added.

Jimenez said agents arrested the two men as they tried to hide in the sand, and took them to a local Border Patrol station for processing.

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