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| Border officials discover drug-trafficking tunnel running from Mexico into California |
| 2021-08-09 |
| [FoxNews] The 183-foot long tunnel was about 22 feet underground. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents uncovered an extensive tunnel connecting Mexico to California that may have served as part of a massive drug trafficking operation. Homeland Security Investigations, a sub-division of ICE, discovered the 183-foot long tunnel in Mexicali, Baja California, around 22 feet underground near the international border. Working with Mexican authorities, HIS San Diego Task Force agents determined that a drug trafficking organization dug the tunnel. "These types of tunnels enable drug traffickers to conduct illicit activities virtually undetected across the U.S.–Mexico border," said Cardell T. Morant, special agent in charge of HSI San Diego. "Discovering and shutting down these tunnels deals a major blow to drug trafficking organizations because it denies them the ability to smuggle drugs, weapons and people across the border." The tunnel’s entrance is about three feet north of the border wall but has no exit on the U.S. side of the border, the agency said in a press release. Related: Mexicali: 2020-07-01 Coronavirus Jumps the Border, Overwhelming Hospitals in California Mexicali: 2020-05-21 Coronaplague Roundup Mexicali: 2020-04-22 Ensenada blocks access to city to protect citizens from coronavirus Related: Baja California: 2020-09-23 Screaming 'Karen' attacks Native Americans staging a protest against Trump's border wall - and then mocks them when they refuse to fight back and start praying to their ancestors Baja California: 2020-07-01 Coronavirus Jumps the Border, Overwhelming Hospitals in California Baja California: 2020-05-21 Coronaplague Roundup Related: San Diego: 2021-07-18 Washington Nationals suspend game vs. Padres after shooting reported outside stadium; Update: 3 shot San Diego: 2021-07-14 Navy Secretary Hearing After Damaging Report Released San Diego: 2021-07-11 Police: Man arrested in San Diego after Chicago slaying of Puerto Rican couple |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 Read the headline quickly and thought it said Canada instead of California. |
| Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 2021-08-09 07:43 |
| #4 ^ Calexico, not El Centro. Otherwise they'd still be digging |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-08-09 06:59 |
| #3 The tunnel is incomplete, there is no exit. The tunnel probably needed to go another couple hundred feet north to a safe house in the populated urban border trade town of El Centro surrounded by Imperial Valley agricultural lands. In late January 2021 all of a sudden all digging stopped in the tunnel when the incoming president relaxed all immigration laws and coyotes turned to immigrants as pack mules. Nothing but cob webs in the tunnel now. |
| Posted by: boomerc 2021-08-09 04:38 |
| #2 With the dems Open Border policy, the tunnels have become redundant. I recommend they be re-purposed as nuclear waste storage sites. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-08-09 02:52 |
| #1 Happens all the time. Didn't the Israelis develop a technology to counter the Hamas tunneling? But then, if they did, Biden would not be interested. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-08-09 01:09 |