| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Caribbean-Latin America | |
| Tunnel Linking US And Mexico Found | |
| 2013-11-02 | |
| [BBC] A drug-smuggling tunnel equipped with electricity, ventilation and a rail system has been found connecting San Diego, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and Tijuana, Mexico. Authorities seized more than eight tons of marijuana and 325lb (147kg) of cocaine in the discovery. Officials have not revealed the exact length or location of the recently finished tunnel, but Mexican media report it is near Tijuana's airport. More than 75 such secret tunnels have been discovered since 2008. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the find on Thursday. 'Just completed' It was described as "a just completed, highly sophisticated underground passageway", according to an ICE statement. The tunnel is the eighth discovered just in San Diego since 2006, according to media reports. In 2010, officials confiscated 22 tons of drugs from a 640m (2,100ft) tunnel equipped with rail tracks stretching from a Tijuana home to two San Diego warehouses.
| |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 You can make a nice living in the 'taxes' from stuff moved thru a tunnel. Look at Gaza, for example. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-11-02 22:01 |
| #2 Did Gerry Brown put toll booths in it yet? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-11-02 20:56 |
| #1 I seem to remember that a ground penetrating RADAR doesn't need to be 'on the ground'. A simple flyover can generate a map. Except, those of you who have been there will have seen hovels on the Mexican side built using the fence as a structural wall to support a metal roof. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-11-02 11:56 |