Large group of suspected illegal migrants dumped in ritzy

The first thing that jumps out isn’t the number of people or even the abandoned panga sitting in a harbor full of yachts worth more than most houses. It’s that the boat allegedly hit and damaged someone’s private watercraft on the way in. This wasn’t a quiet, unnoticed landing on some empty stretch of beach. It was a smuggling operation crashing into a ritzy marina and making a mess that can’t be swept under the rug.

We’ve seen this story up and down the coast. Small boats overloaded with people, run ashore at night, and everyone scatters before anyone can sort out who they are or where they came from. Only this time, the boat didn’t make it to a secluded cove. It slammed into private property. And in a neighborhood like that, people tend to pay attention when their insurance rates and property values are suddenly part of the border crisis.

The smugglers don’t care about the people they pack into a 20-foot hull. They stack them in like cargo and send them into the dark. If that yacht hadn’t been there, we might be reading about a drowning instead. The only difference between a tragedy and a nuisance is a piece of fiberglass and some bad luck.

Local officials will ask for more studies, more task forces, more “humanitarian” responses. Fine. But the real answer hasn’t changed: enforce the border and these landings stop being a regular feature of life in America’s most exclusive zip codes. The left can call it a complex issue until the cows come home. The neighbors call it a break-in. We call it what it is. And the guy with the damaged yacht has every right to be furious.