Dramatic moment migrants in a speed boat arrive on a California beach

A dozen illegal immigrants brazenly arrived in the US by taking a speedboat to a beach in California, nearly hitting people in the water, and then escaping in cars.

The boat missed what appeared to be a surfer in the water by a few feet as it zipped by and approached the beach at very high speed.

After beaching the vessel on the sand, the migrants got out and sprinted towards the row of oceanfront houses on Saturday.

Another video showed them being picked up by waiting black SUVs in Carlsbad, a beach town about 30 miles north of San Diego.

The cars left in such haste that one woman almost fell out as it started moving before she had fully clambered in to the back seats.

Locals who filmed the migrants claimed police were called but didn’t show up.

The footage is the latest in brazen attempts by migrants to cross the border illegally. While most try to sneak from Mexico into the US across the land border, others such as the boaters, are trying new methods.

A dozen illegal immigrants brazenly arrived in the US by taking a speedboat to a beach in California

The boat missed what appeared to be a surfer in the water by a few feet as it zipped by and approached the beach at very high speed

Illegal immigrants such as those on the boat not counted in the 6,997 asylum-seekers who surrendered to San Diego border patrol in the first week of April.

Migrants can seek asylum in the US by crossing the border and immediately presenting themselves to law enforcement.

However, a smaller number sneak in to the country illegally with no intention of following the asylum process.

The almost 7,000 migrants from 70 countries were more than other sectors usually get in an entire month.

The San Diego sector, which includes most of the Southern California border with Mexico except El Centro and Calexico, got 6,000 to 8,000 immigrants in recent weeks.

After beaching the vessel on the sand, the migrants got out and sprinted towards the row of oceanfront houses on Saturday

Another video showed them being picked up by waiting black SUVs in Carlsbad, a beach town about 30 miles north of San Diego

The cars left in such haste that one woman almost fell out as it started moving before she had fully clambered in to the back seats

What makes the April 3-9 numbers so significant is that they were the highest in the nation, even beating out the top-ranked Tucson sector.

The Arizona sector only had 6,600 migrant arrivals, but regularly has as many as 11,000.

The Border Patrol divides the border into ‘sectors’ or regions with San Diego the third busiest in latest figures, but that could be changing.

‘Tucson has been the number one sector for migrant arrivals since July 2023, but numbers have been dropping,’ Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America said.

‘While one week’s data is not enough evidence to go by, it is possible that San Diego may be supplanting Tucson as the number-one sector.’

With so many migrants entering the country through Southern California, migrants who are vetted by US Border Patrol are being released onto the streets.

The county migrant shelter closed a few months ago, after local leaders decided they did not want to spend the $18 million a year needed to keep running it.

‘It was costing us, at that point in time, about $1.5 million a month to basically be their travel agent,’ San Diego County Commissioner Jim Desmond said.

Without the local shelter, migrants are either being let loose at a transit station or at the airport by border patrol.

‘The biggest burden here lately has been our airport. Luckily a lot of them are flying to other parts of the country, but we’re a tourist community. People coming to San Diego, they see all the people sleeping there. It looks bad,’ the commissioner added.

‘We just can’t sustain it; we can’t manage the numbers that are coming here.’

Migrants have been known to spend as many as five days crashing at the airport while they wait for a flight out of town, Desmond added.

The weekly figures do not include migrants who entered the US legally with CBP One Appointments at the San Ysidro Port of Entry between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego.

At least 77,000 migrants have entered Southern California that way from October to February, federal statistics show.

Migrants with carry-ons are apprehended at the border in El Campo on March 13

US Border Patrol took 6,997 migrants into custody on April 3-9

Migrant encounters in the San Diego sector (shown above) have been steadily rising since 2021. Last week, the region saw 6,997 in just one week, according to federal statistics

Latest figures from Customs and Border Protection showed that in the month of February the agency encountered 189,922 at the southern border.

In this fiscal year alone, the agency have encountered over 1.1 million people at the border – which began for the government last October.

The record-high numbers of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border have made migration a top concern in this US presidential election year.

‘Our immigration system… is fundamentally broken, including our asylum system that so significantly impacts the security of our borders and the processes we administer at it,’ Immigration Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last week.

‘Only Congress can fix our broken and out dated system and only Congress can address our need for more border patrol agents, asylum officers and immigration judges.’

The United States is expected to be grappling with more than 8 million asylum seekers and migrants who will have crossed over the southern border by September.

The staggering figure represents a 167 percent surge in five years and underscores the challenges faced by what is both an underfunded and antiquated immigration system.

The vast majority of the 8 million are now free to roam US streets, including 2 million ‘high-priority’ cases of career criminals seeking asylum.

The United States is expected to be grappling with more than 8 million asylum seekers and migrants who will have crossed over the southern border by September.

The staggering figure represents a 167 percent surge in five years and underscores the challenges faced by what is both an underfunded and antiquated immigration system.

Migrants who cross the border may often be forced to wait several years for a decision to be made in their applications. In the meantime, they have been released to American streets.

Recent data suggests the backlog has only swelled during President Joe Biden’s term in part reflecting the difficulties his administration has faced in addressing the unprecedented influx of migrants, mainly from Central and South America.

At the end of fiscal year 2023 on September 30, more than 6 million people were recorded on what officials term the ‘non-detained docket.’

Government projections, as communicated in Homeland Security documents sent to Congress, suggest the number will have risen to 8 million by October 1.

The vast majority of the 8 million are now free to roam US streets, including 2 million ‘high-priority’ cases of career criminals seeking asylum.

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