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Nine Mexican nationals found by Coast Guard off Black's Beach

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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Nine people were found in a boat headed for San Diego Sunday morning, the Coast Guard reports. They say all nine of them identified as Mexican nationals and are suspected aliens.

They were interdicted 19 miles off the coast of Black's Beach in a cuddy-cabin vessel "transiting at a high rate of speed."

According to the Coast Guard, all nine were apprehended without force and taken to the Department of Homeland Security agency at Ballast Point.