Posted on 05/01/2017 7:04:20 AM PDT by SandRat
NACO – An incomplete cross-border tunnel was uncovered by a construction worker clearing old fencing near Naco.
According to Christopher Sullivan, a public information officer and Border Patrol agent based out of the Tucson sector, the construction worker contacted Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents at the Brian A. Terry Station to report a “possible smuggling tunnel.” Following an investigation, agents discovered the unfinished tunnel.
“The tunnel was approximately 15 feet deep and extended into the United States about four feet from the international boundary fence,” he said. “The tunnel has no ventilation or lighting.”
The tunnel has already been filled with concrete and dirt and construction teams have continued to deploy fencing.
“I went out after and I couldn’t even find where it was,” said Michael Hyatt, who serves as the patrol agent in charge with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection out of the Brian A. Terry Station in Naco.
Though that particular tunnel has been filled, Hyatt said that he’s always concerned with what smugglers are doing.
“There were no indicators to exploit in defining how long that tunnel has been around, but it couldn’t be too old,” he said, adding that the individual — or individuals — may have started and stopped short as to not make too much of investment on the tunnel. “Nothing made it through that tunnel.”
In the area that fencing is being replaced, Hyatt explained that agents can now see through to the other side. In a previous interview with the Herald/Review, he explained that the new fence will measure 18-feet above the ground, including a 4-foot steel plate placed at the top of the fence. Other portions of the border have double-mesh panels, usually reinforced with a steel post in the center of 4-foot wide sections. The steel girders are positioned at an angle to prevent easy ascent, placed in a concrete-foundation several feet below ground, and are pointed at the top, where the large steel plate is attached. Each of the girders is then filled with concrete.
Border Patrol agents from the Douglas Station also recently discovered a collapsed illicit tunnel near the Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry.
According to officials, a city employee reported a suspicious opening just south of Chino Road. Following an investigation, agents confirmed the tunnel once extended into the United States approximately 60 yards. The tunnel is adjacent to a sewer line and had cut through a tunnel previously remediated.
Based on assessments made by the Tucson Sector tunnel team, the tunnel showed no signs of recent use and had collapsed about 25 feet from its opening. This tunnel was closed off on Thursday, April 27.
BFD.
It’s a shame to waste a perfectly good tunnel.
Not that i know what the heck it could be used for :)
Looks like a job for a gopher cannon.
It is a big deal. Those tunnels are used to smuggle drugs. Each time one is found they fill it with concrete and the cartels just dig around the concrete. Maybe we should dump nuclear waste in them
If trump gets the wall finished.. I can say good enough. Of course.. he is walling the dreamers in and telling them not to worry. Amnesty.. they get to keep cashing in the welfare checks without paying taxes, without any penalty whatsoever.
I was posting ideas awhile back about border wall designs and one of them was about first using a tunnel boring machine to make a single wide tunnel first under the wall, not so much for vehicles but you could have roaming robots in it, mostly its a sensor tube and a base for the wall. For defense it can use non lethal gas or tear gas, or sound, or microwave.
That would rock!
I’m sure Mexico could have been bought.
That was coming soon...
Did you ever make a cannon out of a tube and some hair spray?
You take a tube big enough to hold a tennis ball
Seal off one end, put a tennis ball into the other (make some sort of stopper so it does not go all the way down.
drill a hole a few inches about the bottom (sealed) end. Spray in a good amount of hair spray, and light it with a match.
You would be amazed at how far up you can get something to go.
We did this with a metal pipe and some M-80’s (the old GOOD kind) The tennis ball went up so far we could not see it. We thought it was gone. After what seemed like a good 20 or 30 seconds, this thing come flying straight down with a Whoosh and WHOMP onto the ground.
We must have hit the absolute sweet spot on the first attempt because on the next attempts we just blew up the tennis ball. We ran out of M-80’s before I could experiment with some wadding.
Uuse that tunnel as a concrete foundation, or use it as a small underground bunker( with reinforcement of course but hey use it against these gophers) with sensors so they don’t dig on the side of the old tunnel. Heck bring in the coal, silver miners/engineers and they’ll have a lot of fun with this. Too early for my imagination right now.
Another suggestion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIMfir6r1Rc
Why do most ASSUME that Trump’s designers are only building on the surface? Consider that he has commented on using a construction method like parking garage precast sections that can be over 50 feet long. So, if the design uses these, the wall can still be 30 feet high with 20 feet embedded into a foundation below that.
Maybe Elon Musk can buy the tunnels and move them to LA as part of his proposed underground highway project.
So you like drugs?
No need for costly remedies.
Fill the tunnels with a inexpensive renewable resource.
New and improved sewage sludge, fresh from the wastewater treatment facility .
And, it’s biodegradable.
Uniparty traitors aren’t going to find a wall.
I vaguely recall that the Germans used tunnel-detection tech back in WW2 to guard their stalags. Even back in the Dark Ages a noble under seige sometimes asked one of his men to put a shield to the ground and listen for sounds.
I suspect that modern tech can catch the sounds / etc. very effectively at low cost IF we have the will to use it. Might even be how this one was detected just after it reached the border.
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