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.
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Everyone except the border wedgie-wedgies.
Democrats have been aborting their babies for a generartion..
Wheres the new democrats to come from except across the border(S).
Jeese, have a little compassionate conservativism.. like BUSH..
That one crosses into NM. LOL With Bill Richardson giving them a drivers license with no Social Security number required we'll soon need 8 lanes. He's working with Fox and business leaders to open trade with Mexico. They KNOW they have a friend in him. The RAT.
Undocumented tunnel bump!
About 30 yards of concrete would resolve this one.
Gee, how many times have we heard that a fence and troops on the border would stop everyone from crossing illegally.
You wish.
And spray painting all the highway signs and closed store fronts, to add a nice, sweet, homey touch of art to landscape, that us Americans won't do, too.!!~
Courtesy of Tom Ridge, new employee of Ho'Depot.
Oh, it was Manuel? I remember him well... :^)
I wonder which is worse: Seditiously advocating that our system of self-governance is hopelessly corrupt, or some undocumented dishwashers somewhere.
And I believe the tunnels brings us back full circle to what started T.M.
Ping to me to find the maps showing the tunnels from Mexico to the USA tomorrow.
Theres an idea. Maybe we should divert law enforcement resources from border control to preventing 'seditious' comments.
You voted for dishwashers rather than those who, alongside and with the blessings of our nation's enemies, poison the public discourse with seditious words.
Name one seditious statement.
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