Smuggling tunnel discovered near Mexico

Washington Times ^ | 6/30/07 | Jerry Seper

[JohnHuang2]

Federal agents executed a search warrant at a home in Nogales, Ariz., used to conceal the entrance to a recently constructed tunnel that stretched nearly 100 yards underground to a residence across the border in Mexico.

The so-called Nogales passageway is one of the most extensive smuggling tunnels uncovered along the southwestern border since the discovery of a massive tunnel south of San Diego in January 2006.

Since the September 11 attacks, federal authorities have discovered more than 40 cross-border tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border in California and Arizona. U.S. authorities are conducting a $2.7 million project to fill in seven of the largest, including the one in Nogales, with asphalt and crushed aggregate.

Inside the tiny one-story Nogales home, agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discovered the tunnel"s entrance late Thursday afternoon in a utility room hidden beneath sheets of plywood weighted down with dirt-filled bags.

[DumpsterDiver]

It didn't go all the way to mexico?

I believe that it did. One end of the tunnel was in a house in Nogales, Arizona and the other end was in a residence in Mexico. From the article:

"Federal agents executed a search warrant at a home in Nogales, Ariz., used to conceal the entrance to a recently constructed tunnel that stretched nearly 100 yards underground to a residence across the border in Mexico."

[upchuck]

“Add a river down the middle and the only thing that would be damaged in collapsing the tunnel would be a few spiders and scorpions.”

If by river you refer to the Rio Grande, AFAIK, the Rio Grande does not run through Nogales.

[hinckley buzzard]

This tunnel, like most that are found, has both ends hidden inside buildings to escape detection. Tunnelling under a security fence out in the open, would not the simple option that anti-fencers pretend it would be.

[SkyPilot]

Interesting ICE can find tunnels that have never been used but can't find 500 illegals marching down Main Street USA in protest.

Amen.

ICE is afraid of TV cameras and the MSM portraying them as "meanies."

So......they just choose to not enforce America's laws.

If you and I tried that our taxes, or even a highway speed limit - we wouldn't get far.

But thousands of illegals can do this in the middle of major US city, and the ICE stares at their shoes.

[abigailsmybaby]

I think it was all for show when she came to San Diego..

I'm positive that you could bet the farm on that.

[elli1]

...$2.7 million project to fill in seven of the largest, including the one in Nogales, with asphalt and crushed aggregate.

Or, slightly under $1300 per foot of tunnel (assuming 100 yds. length per tunnel).

Soil cement fill (dirt & cement mixed together) would be probably be a better & less costly alternative?