The San Diego Union Tribune reports on Mexican Human Smugglers using high-speed boats to smuggle people into the United States.

From the San Diego Union Tribune:

The newest battleground between Mexican smugglers and federal agents isn’t on the ground. It’s on the water.Frustrated by anti-smuggling measures along the U.S.-Mexico border, smugglers increasingly are running up the Pacific coast from Baja California to San Diego County, delivering their cargoes of illegal immigrants, and sometimes narcotics, by the boatload.

In some ways, it’s a throwback to America’s Prohibition era, when “rumrunners” tried to outwit or outrun Coast Guard patrols to smuggle in liquor.

“We believe these are some of the same smuggling organizations that have been out there (along the land border),” said Michael Carney, deputy special agent in charge for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego.

“With the land border tightening up, they’re now looking to the marine environment.”

Human Smuggling is a $10 billion market.