Published: Feb 25, 2005 CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) - Federal agents on Friday discovered a clandestine tunnel that may have been built to smuggle drugs and possibly people from Mexico to the United States.
Posted on 02/25/2005 3:58:13 PM PST by TheOtherOne
Federal Agents Discover Illegal Tunnel at Mexican Border
Published: Feb 25, 2005 CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) - Federal agents on Friday discovered a clandestine tunnel that may have been built to smuggle drugs and possibly people from Mexico to the United States.
The tunnel was found on the U.S. side of the border fence in Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It was about 20 feet underground, measuring 3 feet in diameter and reinforced with wood and plastic. Agents found rubber tubing possibly intended for ventilation.
U.S. and Mexican authorities had not determined where the tunnel originated and ended - or even if it was completed, said Mack.
Federal authorities have discovered at least 12 tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border since Sept. 11, 2001, some of them only partially completed, Mack said.
The latest discovery was made using surveying tools that Mack declined to explain in detail.
Last year, Homeland Security began using technology developed by geophysicists to pinpoint suspicious terrain. Previously, it relied on human intelligence and sheer luck, such as when a Border Patrol agent in Calexico struck a sink hole in 2003.
AP-ES-02-25-05 1803EST
Tunnels? I guess that blows the "fence" plan.
Finding the tunnel is admirable, more power to them <<- thats my point.. You conviently hopped right over my point.. Why would that be.?.
Perhaps the tunnel is just undocumented.
Bump
Well, not malice, but you "ask" it like it would be. I simply did not see that as your point. Still don't after re-reading your post in question.
Stand down.
Good job FBI! Their concern is that terroists can enter thru the tunnels why not prevent ALL illegals from coming into this country.
Now, back to the legal tunnels, Barney.
Not only let them retire, but give them the Medal of Freedom.
Tunnel ping.
Bump
NO....
I'm not pissed at you in the least anyway, why would I be.....
Just pissed about the Mex. border situation period..
As are many other posters here..
A few illegals we've always had.. It used to be a joke.. i.e. wetbacks
Multi-millions of illegals are no joke.. and I'm not laughing.. It has nothing at all to do with terrorism..
Sadly we both know how and when it will get stopped.
This is going to go down in History as George W. Bush's shame. There is no where to lay the blame but at his feet. It has been a problem for decades, yes, but under THIS presiDENT it has gone from a torrent to a raging tsunami of lawlessness.
I voted for Dubya, and I really, really like him, but he is SO WRONG on this issue and it is simply incomprehensible to me.
This is going to go down in History as George W. Bush's shame. There is no where to lay the blame but at his feet. It has been a problem for decades, yes, but under THIS presiDENT it has gone from a torrent to a raging tsunami of lawlessness.
I voted for Dubya, and I really, really like him, but he is SO WRONG on this issue and it is simply incomprehensible to me.
Did Ho' Depot provide the shovels?
It has nothing to do with terrorism and it has nothing to do with jobs. It has everything to do with the importation of socializm and the dilution of the American Way.
I see our culture as being like a trust fund. It has been so successful that it generates enough that we've been able to do some wonderful things in the world. Letting the huddled masses in with no restrictions is like selling our birthright for a mess of pottage. We're spending the principal and one day we won't be able to export goodness any more. It's going to be back to hand-to-mouth living, and Katie Bar the Door.
Oh, they can enter alright, just not by tunnel.
There are a thousands of more Mosques in America than you claim are shown on that map.
Good job by our agents.
Does anyone else find it ironic that they called the tunnel "illegal".
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