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    Post Under the U.S.-Mex border, miles of tunnels worth millions of dollars to traffickers

    Under the U.S.-Mexico border, miles of tunnels worth millions of dollars — to traffickers


    The cocaine travels north through the sewer. Sometimes the traffickers send it floating in bags on a river of wastewater. Sometimes they crawl with it through mud and human excrement until they hit U.S. soil. As the U.S. border wall rose just north of this city, the drug trade here has been driven underground. Mexican and U.S. patrols have found tunnel
    after tunnel drilled into an 80-year-old drainage system that connects the two countries, 15 feet below the surface.

    Mexican national guardsmen wielding flashlights form the front line, tracking shovel-bearing drug traffickers through the seven-mile stretch of drainage and sewage lines on the Mexican side. They wonder out loud how many tunnels they ­haven’t been able to find. “Nogales is the capital of cross-border tunnels between Mexico and the United States,” said Ricardo Santana Velázquez, the Mexican consul general in neighboring Nogales, Ariz.




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    There is no immigration problem. No way they would use those tunnels to walk illegals into the country. Oh and certainly not terrorists.

    Go watch this one:
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    Worth every minute true story.
    I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.

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    I worked with 2 US companies setting up border facilities in Mexico in the 80s and 90s. As you get to know the locals on the US side they tell you the stories about the tunnels and show you the locations of the ones that got busted. They buy a free standing building in the middle of industrial or warehouse districts on the US side and run a business out of the front so they have traffic to and from the building.
    In McAllen, I was surprised to meet so many smugglers. Smugglers to Mexico. They would actually deliver US farm equipment into Mexico with transport planes. Fly in, land in a field, dump the equipment and take off immediately in case they were tracked. At the gas station we would see them in the morning loading up with Japanese electronics and then they would go over to the air pump and lift the rear end up by filling the air-shocks. They were told which lane to use to enter Mexico. There was a huge tariff to protect Mexican electronics at that time from Japanese imports.
    Smuggling went two ways but certainly ignored by the USA in the other direction.

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