One of the people had a warrant out for an arrest. The duo, referred to as “aliens” by the Coast Guard’s statement, was aboard a “commercial fishing vessel,” the statement detailed. A law, cited as 46 U.S.C. 8103 in the statement, “requires at least 75% of a vessel’s crew to be U.S. citizens.”

The United States Coast Guard intercepted 20 illegal immigrants on a "30-foot-panga-style vessel" off the coast of California on Tuesday.

A boat loaded with 20 migrants from Mexico and China was intercepted on the high seas while trying to make it to the California shoreline, the US Coast Guard said in a release. The 30-foot “panga-style” boat was about 21 miles off the coast of Point Loma near San Diego when it was spotted around 4 p.