Posted on 10/23/2015 10:15:21 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Agents found a hole in the floor near a warehouse in Otay Mesa -— a city south of San Diego -- that led to a shaft descending almost 32 feet down in the ground. The shaft connected to an underground passageway, which included lighting, ventilation and a rail system, leading to the U.S.-Mexico border.
We see a super tunnel open for business once every year or so,” U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy told ABC News today. “Just when they think they’re ready to move, we put it out of business.”
The Tunnel Task Force conducted a six-month investigation that revealed the 2,600-foot long tunnel, to be one the largest uncovered along the southern border in recent years.
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A couple of pounds of aluminum phosphide will do the trick. If the phosphine doesn’t get ‘em, just toss in a match and the explosion will.
Why just stop with foreign nationals? Why not just get rid of the whole court system, since you think it's a waste of your money. Just have the government executioners kill anybody that they think needs killing.
Spoke to a client today that thinks that is a good idea. He has a tenant that has twice turned the gas on, left the building and called the fire dept for a fire. They show up, turn off the gas and call the police, the police says, no harm done, we have no proof he did anything, have a nice day.
Next day the tenant calls my client and leaves a voice mail, I just burned down your building. My client calls the police they listen and say, how do you know it is him, we cannot prove it, have a nice day. This guy when he gets evicted will (as he has said) actually burn the building and kill a lot of people - the police will show up and maybe do something besides say have a nice day.
That tenant has been arrested 16 times.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Here's the argument:
l. This is clearly from a foreign country.
2. Is it an invasion? I suppose that depends on intent. Are they trying to get around normal entry processes and surveillance?
3. Is it war? I suppose that depends on who uses the tunnel. Does it have to be uniformed soldiers using the tunnel for this to be an act of war? What about foreign spies? What about terrorists?
It will never happen in loony California, but what if a Governor were to declare this an invasion and an act of war, citing Article I Section 10 power, and then either held the people captured as prisoners of war or demolished the tunnel as a legitimate wartime target, without going through the courts? Wouldn't the courts be unnecessary, as Article I Section 10 gives the states plenary power to repel a wartime invasion?
-PJ
I wonder why there has not been a radar system designed to detect these tunnels?
Use the tunnel to send back criminal illegals.
Strap them in/on the tunnel cars and give them a rocket ride back home that Disney would be jealous off.
Very disconcerting knowing that my kid went to boot there. Most beautiful city I have ever seen compared to Chicago, NYC, and Philly. Of course, went for graduation and that year there had been lots of rain. The city should ask the Israeli’s for tunnel search technology.
It’s a “war on drugs” isn’t it? All’s fair in love and war.
DEA agents should follow the tunnel to its Mexican opening and shoot everyone they see.
Our lovely neighbors to the south, shipping this poison into our country as fast as they can, los pinche cabrons.
Apples/oranges argument. Our courts are for OUR benefit, not that of everyone who sneaks in, drug laden or otherwise, intent upon doing harm.
So the government executioners can kill anyone they think is up to no good as long as they're not US citizens? I did not know that. Learn something new every day, I guess.
Is it an acceptable use of force to say they had reason to suspect somebody was a noncitizen? Or suspected they were intent on doing harm? That would certainly streamline the whole punishment process, if they'd just get rid of that whole "rule of law" stuff.
A tunnel? It’s 2020 and we just paid several hundred billion to build that wall.
Like Noriega and Escobar. They gave up the new one to cover for the three working ones...
Bury Det Cord in the floor of it down the length. Wait. When they’re all in there, detonate.
You’re in favor of the government executing people without a trial? “
You bet. Great idea.
I was at the training school in Fort Huachuca in the early 80’s and the area where they trained was so dangerous, they finally had to drive tanks over the whole thing to collapse all the tunnels.
And because every party has an elf.
How 'bout you?
If the US Army has no more responsibilities in terms of defending the borders than the current Border Patrol does, then no, I'm not in favor of it. If there is an actual danger of a military incursion, then the military should certainly repel it. I doubt that I'll see the Mexican or Canadian armies streaming across the border in an actual invasion in my lifetime though.
Our military is trained for dealing with actual combatants. I'd just as soon not expand their mission to dealing with wetbacks and drug smugglers.
I take it you mean something larger than gophers and prairie dogs?
Yes, the tunnel rat training course was at Ft Huachuca and the tunnels were still there till the mid-80’s. Some idiot would try and find one every once in awhile, even though there was barbed wire and concertina everywhere.
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