Barbra Streisand has lots of spare room! Astonishing moment boat full of migrant lands on MALIBU beach over 100 miles from Mexico-California border, close to home of megastar who lashed Trump’s wall
- New footage shows a migrant boat landing on Malibu beach in the early hours of November 28, as around 25 people run onto the shore
- Migrant boat landings in Malibu, 100 miles north of the US-Mexico border, are extremely rare: it is unclear if anyone has been apprehended
- The landing took place near the $100 million, 19-bedroom clifftop mansion owned by Barbra Streisand, a fierce critic of Donald Trump's border wall.
New footage shows the moment a boat carrying migrants lands on Malibu beach, causing about 25 people to jump into the waves and run onto the shore – some leaving their old clothes behind as they flee.
The migrants landed on the beach not far from the home of Barbra Streisand — an arch critic of Donald Trump who called his border wall a “monument to himself.”
Under Trump's successor, Joe Biden, the number of immigrants entering the country soared as the pandemic ended: 2.8 million people were stopped or turned away at the border last year, the highest number since at least 1980.
The security camera footage was filmed at 1 a.m. on November 28 and obtained by Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, who specializes in migration.
The migrant boat lands on Malibu beach in the early hours of November 28, as dozens of migrants rush onto the shore
About 25 people can be seen climbing out of the boat and running onto the beach. It is unclear whether anyone has been arrested
Melugin pointed out that it is extremely rare to see migrants land this far north — the U.S.-Mexico border is 100 miles south.
It is not known if anyone has been arrested.
The boat landed on one of America's most exclusive coastlines, where celebrities such as Cher, Jennifer Aniston, Will Smith and Lady Gaga own homes.
Streisand's 19-bedroom clifftop mansion, which she bought in 1997, is now estimated to be worth $100 million.
In 2019, the longtime Democratic donor criticized Trump's plans for a border wall.
Trump only cares about this 'wall' to build a monument to himself. Like the bankrupt 'Trump' buildings, the nation cannot afford to pay for his ego – not financially, not morally,” she wrote on X.
Barbra Streisand, 81, will appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on November 13. Streisand lives in Malibu with her husband James Brolin
The year before, she said her song “Don't Lie to Me” was inspired by him.
“Unless you are an American Indian, you are a child, grandchild or great-grandchild of immigrants, even the president,” she says. told Vogue in September 2018.
The number of migrants arriving by boat far exceeds the number crossing by land, but the number of landings at sea is also increasing.
Florida sees the vast majority of arrivals.
Recent maritime flows of Cubans and Haitians to Florida have reached the highest levels since the 1990s: 7,000 Haitians and 6,000 Cubans were interdicted at sea by U.S. officials in FY 2022, and initial data shows similar numbers in FY 2023, according Maritime policy.