Mexico Baja Coast May Day Call: US Coast Guard saves 16 people, 11 missing. What has happened?

Migrants are increasingly turning to the risky alternative offered by smugglers to travel by sea to avoid heavily guarded land borders. Small boats called pangas leave Baja in the dead of night and sometimes travel hundreds of miles north.
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- Lifestyle
- First reported by
- The Economic Times
- Reporter
- debjit sinha
- Published
- Saturday, 17 October 2026, 2:19 am IST
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