Posted on 09/03/2016 7:21:25 PM PDT by Elderberry
NOGALES, Ariz. — On an embankment that runs along a towering steel fence separating this border town from its Mexican sister city, a patch of new concrete with a date carved into it stands out, marking the exit of a tunnel Border Patrol agents sealed in May.
Dozens more like it snake around town, part of a vast underground network that Mexican drug cartels have used for years to funnel hundreds of pounds of illicit drugs into the United States. When Border Patrol agents find the tunnels, they dump concrete to seal them and stamp them with the date that they are shut down.
But they struggle to stay ahead of the digging. Last Friday, the Border Patrol, in a joint operation with Mexican authorities, discovered an unfinished tunnel that started in a Mexican cemetery.
“The clock is ticking as soon as they complete a tunnel,” said Kevin Hecht, a Border Patrol tunneling expert. “They know that we will eventually find them. But if even one load gets through before we find it, they consider it a success.”
While Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has made building a wall at the border a central element of his campaign, the fence here that reaches up to 30 feet has done little to deter enterprising drug smugglers. It has simply helped push them underground.
Border Patrol agents cannot hear smugglers digging and do not know how many tunnels there are, a gap in border security that homeland security experts say renders talk of a wall moot.
“The Border Patrol has done an incredible job, given its resources,” said Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, the White House drug policy director in the Clinton administration. “But it would be a stretch to say that the border and border communities are secure
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The logic (lack thereof) of liberal hacks never ceases to amaze.
Do not worry, though, a ban on guns will most certainly work.
Somebody is thinking that walls can be built only along the surface. Perhaps they should read about Israel’s border walls.
The Slimes of New York is right on track.
Oops..Hey fellas, another tunnel cave in.
OK,. Well, So the wall will have to be 60 feet high AND sixty feet deep. With vibration sensors to detect when the sappers are digging.
Perhaps if we buried bottles of Sarin gas, at various levels. That way, if the Cartel sets off and hits a “no-no” on American soul, the cost will be sufficient to make them reconsider.
Trump had an answer to this in his speech on immigration last week.
Trump adressed tunnels also. This is their usual nothing is possible propoganda.
Certainly makes Mexicans sound like criminal scum doesn’t it?
Obviously, this idiot Nixon is both deaf and cannot read transcripts. In one of the most anticipated speeches this decade, Trump made it perfectly clear about all facets of the “wall”.
I want one!
Okay, easy solution. Ground penetrating radar. Trace them and destroy them.
To where is all the dirt taken?
Without the wall, the border is a giant sieve. The wall will close off the sieve. Tunnels will be scattered bottlenecks in illicit activity. I would rather deal with scattered bottle necks than one big giant ass sieve.
For a place that supposedly treats mexican really awful, mexicans sure seem to want to keep breaking in to it.
Exactly. I’ve read some seismographs would put an end to tunneling.
This one Rodenator :30 Spot 2009
That makes sense. One big plug. Then plug the little leaks.
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