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Federal agents find sophisticated ‘narco tunnel’ allowing cartels to sneak drugs - and humans - across the border (El Paso)
NY Post ^ | 1/12/25 | Ronny Reyes

Posted on 01/13/2025 1:03:29 AM PST by Libloather

US federal agents have uncovered a sophisticated “narco tunnel” equipped with electricity and a working ventilation system that smugglers had been using between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico.

Homeland Security Investigations EL Paso said the man-made tunnel, which is about 4 feet wide and 6-feet high, burrowed into El Paso’s Boone Street storm-drain system, which is located just a few blocks from the border, KTSM reported.

Shocking video from inside the tunnel, which was enforced with only wood beams, shows its sprawling path beneath the border that smugglers used to transport people and drugs in and out of the US.

HSI said its agents are investigating the tunnel and vowed to arrest those who created and used the underground facility, which appears to have been constructed in the past year.

“Transnational criminal organizations mistakenly think they can avoid detection by moving people and contraband underground,” HSI El Paso Special Agent in Charge Jason Stevens said in a statement.

“This recent discovery is a significant blow to their operations as it highlights our capability to disrupt their sophisticated smuggling networks,” he added.

Border Patrol El Paso Sector Chief Anthony Good praised the agents who first uncovered the tunnel Friday morning after removing a metal plate hiding its 3-foot-by-3-foot entry hole near the border.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 2024; 202501; border; cartels; drugs; elpaso; elpasocell; juarez; mexico; smuggling; tda; texas; tunnel; tunnels
Sneaky bass turds.
1 posted on 01/13/2025 1:03:29 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

how could Trump “whos not president” have let this happen?


2 posted on 01/13/2025 1:12:21 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Libloather

A DMZ with a 50 mile ‘no mans land’ buffer into Mehico would put a dent in this activity.


3 posted on 01/13/2025 1:15:26 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

Regular patrols with earth compacting equipment would put an end to this.


4 posted on 01/13/2025 1:19:07 AM PST by Jonty30 (Liberals are a fulfillment of II Tim3:5. We are instructed to have nothing to do with those people. )
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To: Jonty30

Bring in earth compacting equipment but first put joe, jill
and the biden crime family in there...... to keep them “safe”.


5 posted on 01/13/2025 1:32:55 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: Libloather

A whole lot of self congratulation and atta boys by the Feds in this article. If we are to take at face value that the tunnel was built in the last year....well drugs and people have poured over the boarder for the last year. Maybe we should have ground digging listening devices. If not already MORE of them.


6 posted on 01/13/2025 2:06:55 AM PST by DAC21
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To: Libloather

Pres. Trump...please make it a federal law that those F’n things immediatly get BLOWN UP!!


7 posted on 01/13/2025 3:19:24 AM PST by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: Libloather

Not surprising in light of what Israel has discovered in regards to hamas.

That was to be expected when you let your enemies have free reign in your country.

Bunker buster them all in areas where there are not American citizens that would be harmed. In those areas, do SOMERTHING to collapse the tunnels or render them useless.


8 posted on 01/13/2025 4:04:19 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Libloather

Someone didn’t pay someone else what they were supposed to and the tunnel was suddenly “discovered”.


9 posted on 01/13/2025 4:28:17 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Since the tunnel is already dug why can’t it be used for an escape route for the dems who want to leave America?
Install a squeeze cattle chute on top. Fill with dems and squeeze.


10 posted on 01/13/2025 4:59:46 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Libloather

Feds now pretending to arrest people other than US citizens, nuns, people who go to church, moms and dads going to school board meetings. It’s a show. They will go back to that when they can.


11 posted on 01/13/2025 5:47:35 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Now that the tunnel has been discovered, I guess we could fill it with sea water on the American side & take note where it exits in Mexico.


12 posted on 01/13/2025 7:33:47 AM PST by oldtech
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Now that the tunnel has been discovered, I guess we could fill it with sea water on the American side & take note where it exits in Mexico.


13 posted on 01/13/2025 7:34:43 AM PST by oldtech
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To: Libloather

OMG, no way

Funded and Built by Obama/Biden?


14 posted on 01/13/2025 7:35:56 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: oldtech

oops, popped up in the white house


15 posted on 01/13/2025 7:36:53 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: metmom

El Paso was the main route for the Venezuelan narcoterror group TdA. The TdA are linked to Hezbollah through the Venezuelan official al Assaimi [sp?]


16 posted on 04/13/2025 12:44:22 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

I have no doubt there are far more. They all need to be found and obliterated.


17 posted on 04/13/2025 1:23:26 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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