Posted on 06/20/2025 12:36:57 PM PDT by george76
The nearly 3,000-foot passage was equipped with lighting, ventilation systems and tracks to move narcotics
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U.S. Border Patrol agents recently discovered and disabled a nearly 3,000-foot-long narcotics smuggling tunnel sitting beneath the US-Mexico border.
Agents found the tunnel — which linked Tijuana and San Diego — in early April while it was actively under construction.
The underground passageway ran under part of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry and had a projected exit point near or inside a commercial warehouse space in San Diego
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Upon entering the "highly sophisticated" tunnel, authorities were met with barricades seemingly placed to prevent law enforcement from finding its entrance
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The tunnel — which reached depths of around 50 feet underground at its deepest point — measured 2,918 feet long, 42 inches tall and 28 inches wide. It was equipped with lighting, electrical wiring, ventilation systems and a track system for transporting large amounts of contraband.
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More than 95 tunnels have been decommissioned in the San Diego area since 1993.
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“More than 95 tunnels have been decommissioned in the San Diego area since 1993.”
Wow. How many other tunnels are operational? How many in points east of San Diego / Otay Mesa?
How do the buildings even stay up?
42” high by 28” wide.. them Mexicans sure are small these days.
They should place booby traps in them, IED’s and the like.
What a bunch of bullcrap. A 3000ft tunnel wouldn't even get them into Chula vista which is many miles south of San Diego.
I think they mean Tijuana and Emperor Beach
They should pump raw sewage in to them. Preferably while they are in use.
Announce that future tunnels that are discovered will have a few tanks full of agricultural anhydrous ammonia pumped into the tunnels and do it. Anhydrous ammonia is cheap. Anhydrous means “without water. “ Ammonia dearly wants water to become Ammonium Hydroxide. This happens immediately in the lungs when breathed. Ammonium Hydroxide in your lungs would be like pouring liquid lye (sodium Hydroxide) into your lungs. A most horrible death. You breath it and cough it out reflexively, you then breath again due to oxygen need and the same thing happens again until you are dead, your lungs seem on fire and you can not see. The ammonia has reacted with the tear layer on your eyes and raised the ph level as happened in the lungs. You will close your eyes due to pain.
Those in the tunnels would endure a most horrible death. It would be like breathing fire but take longer than burning to death. It the ammonia level gets to between 17 and 28 percent it is explosive. These tunnels have electrical equipment in them and lights. There will be a spark and it goes boom. Once the word got around the cartels would not find people to dig the tunnels.
Time to purchase some more Ground-Penetrating RADAR units, and slip some Apple Tags into their drug shipments and track them!
“Border Patrol agents shut down massive drug smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego”
Local judge orders tunnel reopened pending hearing. /s
Looks like the “wall” needs to extend about 100ft underground...
Should have planted some microphones and some concealed boom booms. Then waited until it was occupied and set of the festivities.
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The idiot who wrote this is an uninformed dolt. I guess that’s par for the course with our know-nothing media these days.
I believe you mean Imperial Beach, which is the last suburb before the border, and the most Southwest town in the USA.
My family and I lived there for 3 years while a Navy recruiter at NAS Coronado. We had many encounters with illegals using our side gate in a cul-de-sac street to continue their northern invasion.
I got sick of it one night and went out to confront about 10 or so with a PR-24 baton I was trained to use while Shore Patrol a year earlier when stationed in Rota, Spain. Luckily for me, they decided against such a confrontation and left our property.
I have been anti-illegal alien since (including street activism).
Otay Mesa (other side of Hwy 5) has long been a crossing or tunneling point for illegals. No surprise here.
Please see my post above. Plus, the suburbs tend to be called "San Diego" by the media and many who live there. We lived in Imperial Beach but our address was San Diego. And yes, a 3000 foot tunnel could make from TJ to Otay Mesa across the border. It's been done even in my day. I believe the reporter got it wrong about an exit in SD commercial district.
As a teenager living in Chula Vista, we had all manner of pet names for local cities. Venereal Beach, Chula Juana, Nasty City, Raunch Santa Fe. Butchered Spanish pronunciation for La Jolla, El Cajon, Jamacha. We knew how to correctly pronounce the names. Verbal horseplay.
After I got married, I lived in a condo in Chula Vista for 5 years, then sold it for a house in Mira Mesa (1983). The gangs and graffiti were becoming a problem by 1999, so we sold the house in Mira Mesa and moved to Idaho. The illegals were pretty bold in Mira Mesa. They would sleep in my front yard and drink from my garden hose. At night the sound of gun fire was common. I heard someone do a mag dump of a AK-47 on New Year's Eve at midnight. It was time to leave.
They need to construct a large funnel-shaped fence with the tunnel entrance at the narrow end.
Then just unload the buses and tell them “free beer and tacos” at the other end.
Yes. Chula Juana for Chula Vista. Nasty City for National City. I don’t recall Venereal Beach.
I believe you mean Imperial Beach, which is the last suburb before the border, and the most Southwest town in the USA.
San Ysidro is further south than Imperial Beach, CA.
Now, Tijuana Estuary does empty into Imperial Beach, and that’s where a lot of the effluviant from the untreated sanitation water is deposited.
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