U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents patrol in a speedboat off San Diego in July. (Chris Carlson, The Associated Press) SAN DIEGO — The speedboat is about 3 miles offshore when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent cuts the engine to drift on the current in quiet darkness, hoping for the telltale signs of immigrant smuggling — a motor's whir or sulfur exhaust fumes. "It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and the haystack is the Pacific Ocean," says agent Tim...
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