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A law enforcement officer stands by the opening of a cross-border tunnel on Monday, May 16, 2022 between Mexico's Tijuana into the San Diego area.
In January this year, CBP announced federal agents had discovered the longest cross-border smuggling tunnel ever found along the Southwest border, originating in Baja California, Mexico. It ...
In December 2012, a tunnel 3 feet in diameter and 100 yards long, with electricity and ventilation, was found near the Nogales, Arizona, port of entry. [12] On February 14, 2014, another underground drug tunnel was discovered in Nogales. The tunnel spanned 481 feet (147 m), or longer than 1.5 American football fields.
The tunnel's point of origin was about 60 feet south of the U.S.-Mexico border, in "an area that is primarily open fields and farmland," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Drug tunnel under the wall. The tunnel was pumped full of concrete after discovery. Tunnels under the wall are still a common way to illegally cross the border. Some tunnels are quite sophisticated. One such tunnel created by smugglers ran from Tijuana to San Diego, was a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long, and included a concrete floor as well as ...
(Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have uncovered two drug-smuggling tunnels underneath the U.S.-Mexico border, both surfacing in San Diego-area warehouses and equipped with rail systems for moving ...
Over the 2019 Memorial Day weekend, the organization constructed a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) to 1-mile (1.6 km)-mile "weathered steel" bollard fence near El Paso on private land adjoining the U.S.–Mexico border using $6–8 million of the donated funds. Kolfage's organization says it has plans to construct further barriers on private lands adjoining ...
The tunnel exposes limitations of President Donald Trump’s border wall, which stretches several feet underground in the area. Authorities find longest Southwest border smuggling tunnel Skip to ...