Thread: BORDER AGENTS DISCOVER TUNNEL MEXICO -- U.S.

Border Agents Discover U.S.-Mexico Tunnel

Published: 1/11/06, 9:05 AM EDT


SAN DIEGO (AP) - Border Patrol agents discovered a 35-foot-long tunnel beneath the U.S.-Mexico border after it caved in and the asphalt roadway above it collapsed, officials said.

The tunnel ended in a patch of vacant land near the San Ysidro port of entry, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It was reinforced and was about 3 feet by 3 feet, and it appeared to have been used recently, she said.

It wasn't immediately clear when the tunnel was built or whether it might have been used for smuggling drugs or people.

Authorities sealed off the U.S. side with sandbags and metal after discovering it on Monday, Mack said.

The tunnel is across the border from an area that is either owned or leased by Mexican Customs.

More than a dozen tunnels have been found along the southwestern border in recent years. In 2003, Border Patrol agents found a tunnel that originated in a private house in Mexico and ended in a parking lot on the U.S. side. A year later, U.S. authorities found evidence that someone was trying to rebuild the passageway.

"We do believe it's a trend where smugglers are attempting to go underground after 9/11 as a result of the heightened security," Mack said.


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You have some explaining to do, Vicente. Start talking !

If they weren't so danged SAFE after they get here then there would be no desire to tunnel. There MUST be dire consequences to being here illegally.

RR

Let us be the FIRST to ask GWB how "safe" Americans should feel !?

And the tunnel is located right next to a Mexican Costums station. Come on!! This is INSANE.

Do you think George Bush should continue to call Vicente Fox his good friend??

Are you telling me Vicente Fox can't even control Mexico's Customs and immigration officials ?? We can't help but to wonder if HE himself was aware of this ???

There is no way they could not have known about this.

This is frikkin outrageous. I haven't seen anybody reporting this story. "Good nieghbors" don't tunnel into your frikkin yard

One of the Raleigh, NC, news web sites carried the story along with the FOX news web site.