Mexico finds 2 border tunnels leading from Tijuana into US

[Common]

Amazing handywork, picture of it at link

Mexican police and soldiers have discovered two clandestine tunnels in the border city of Tijuana that officials believe were built to smuggle drugs into California. The tunnels were found in an area of warehouses across from Otay Mesa, about 400 yards (meters) away from each other. The area immediately north of the border is also a warehouse district.
Prosecutors said Monday that one of the tunnels reached to San Diego, and the other was unfinished.
The Mexican Attorney General's Office said the tunnels were apparently used by the Sinaloa cartel to move drugs into the United States.
It said it found the tunnels after the U.S. consulate in Tijuana determined the tunnels were being reactivated after apparently falling into disuse.

http://www.cnsnews.com/

[Cigar]

Build a Wall and that will Fix it.

[Common Sense]

There are plenty more where that came from. They aren't used for people. They're used to bring guns into Mexico and drugs out.

Reminds me of a line from Sicario..."Until someone finds a way to stop 20 percent of America putting this shit up their nose, order is the best we can hope for."

[Common]

Build a Wall and that will Fix it.
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[Common]

There are plenty more where that came from. They aren't used for people. They're used to bring guns into Mexico and drugs out.
Reminds me of a line from Sicario..."Until someone finds a way to stop 20 percent of America putting this shit up their nose, order is the best we can hope for."



lol please explain how you KNOW they arent used for people, because everything Ive read they are used for EVERYTHING. Drug cartels are also coyotes

[resister]

Possibly Obama and eric holder were using them to ship guns into mexico.Maybe, 20% of americans have done coke,but active users are way lower

[Common Sense]

lol please explain how you KNOW they arent used for people, because everything Ive read they are used for EVERYTHING. Drug cartels are also coyotes


The tunnels aren't used for people (at least not large amounts of people) because they are very expensive to build and masses of people would draw attention to them. It's far more profitable to smuggle drugs than people...by a huge margin. The more people that go through them, the greater chance they will be exposed.

The tunnels that may be used for people are short little tunnels right at the fence. These elaborate tunnels are used exclusively for drugs, cash and weapons.

[waltky]

Granny thinks dem Hispexicans is tryin' to tunnel up through her bedroom floor...
http://www.politicalforum.com/images/smilies/icon_grandma.gif
Mexico-U.S. Border Tunnels a Security Risk
January 16, 2017 - Mexican drug cartels have burrowed dozens of tunnels in the past decade, outfitted them with rail and cart systems to whisk drugs under the U.S. border and, after being discovered by authorities, abandoned them. But some of the illicit passageways live on.


At least six previously discovered border tunnels have been reactivated by Mexican trafficking groups in recent years, exposing a recurring large-scale smuggling threat, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials. The breaches of border defenses, most recently in December, occur because Mexican authorities, unlike those on the American side, do not fill the tunnels with concrete once they have been discovered. Mexican authorities say they lack the funds. Instead, only the tunnel openings are sealed. That allows traffickers to simply dig a new entry point to access the largely intact subterranean passageways leading to the U.S. border.

The security lapse is a boon for traffickers, experts say, saving them time and money and reducing their risk of being caught as they haul away dirt. “The biggest threat is that it’s a huge open invitation for drug traffickers, and it’s definitely going to be taken advantage of,” said Michael Unzueta, a former special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. On the U.S. side, drug tunnels have been filled since 2007, after The Los Angeles Times reported that they were being left unfilled because of budget constraints at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Prompted by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who called the tunnels a “national security risk,” the agency has filled every large tunnel up to the border ever since, according to Department of Homeland Security officials.


http://r1.officer.com/files/base/OFCR/image/2017/01/16x9/640x360/US_NEWS_USMEXICO_BORDER_TUNNELS_1_LA.587d203b8ec91 .jpg
An armed U.S. Border Patrol agent walks inside a huge underground rainwater drainage tunnel in Nogales, Ariz.

U.S. authorities at the time expected traffickers to reactivate the tunnels, and some recommended that the U.S. consider paying Mexico’s costs of filling the tunnels on its side. But funding was never found. Since 2007, it has cost Customs and Border Protection $8.7 million to fill drug tunnels, according to a 2016 report by the Department of Homeland Security. Now an estimated 20 large tunnels, built before and after 2007, remain largely intact on the Mexican side, according to U.S. and Mexican officials. The tunnel issue could take on more urgency under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has made border security a central feature of his campaign. Border patrol agents who are part of Trump’s transition team said they plan to bring it up with the new administration. “We don’t want to leave infrastructure in place in the form of half-completed tunnels for (cartels) to use,” said Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union of agents whose leaders have advised Trump on border security issues. “The cartels are by no means stupid. They’re taking the idea to work smarter, not harder, when it comes to these tunnels.”

When border fencing went up, traffickers moved underground. Since 2006 there have been 148 tunnels built, according to the DHS, most of them in Arizona and California. The biggest underground threats now come from what border officials refer to as “super tunnels,” which cost millions of dollars to dig and feature sophisticated touches such as lighting and ventilation systems that extend for hundreds of yards down wood-beamed passageways. Most have been built in San Diego’s Otay Mesa region, 20 miles south of downtown. The truck-clogged landscape of nondescript warehouses has long served as ideal cover for underground incursions emanating from a light industrial area directly across the border in Tijuana. It was here in November 2010 that U.S. and Mexican authorities made one of the biggest drug busts ever, seizing 30 tons of marijuana from warehouses linked by a 600-yard passageway.

MORE (http://www.officer.com/news/12295304/intact-mexico-us-border-tunnels-a-security-risk)

[AZ Jim]

lol please explain how you KNOW they arent used for people, because everything Ive read they are used for EVERYTHING. Drug cartels are also coyotes
I lived the first 55 years of my life in San Diego and I assure you no drug cartel goes to the trouble of digging these tunnels, running electric strings of light, air to move people (which would make the tunnels location too well known). They are used 99% for drug movement.

[Don]

We should turn them into septic dumps. Or maybe set up automated motion detector mini guns.

https://youtu.be/nG3Hi7K9MU4