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10-28-2009, 12:52 AM #1
Mexican military finds tunnel 100 feet from US
Mexican military finds tunnel 100 feet from US
The Associated Press
8:23 p.m. October 27, 2009
TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexican soldiers have discovered a secret tunnel complete with electricity and an air supply that may have been planned for smuggling migrants or drugs under the U.S. border into San Diego.
Reporters in Tijuana were invited by military officials on Tuesday to a private, industrial property about 100 feet south of San Diego's Otay Mesa border crossing. Law enforcement officials opened the property for the media and then left.
The journalists, including about 20 reporters, photographers and videographers, walked around until they spotted a big hole, the entrance to a 4-foot-wide tunnel behind a tractor-trailer.
Several walked inside but reached a dead end. Inside they saw blueprints, a shovel and maps of the border region.
Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said her agency assisted the Mexican military after the tunnel was discovered. She said it was incomplete, stopping right under the edge of the border fence.
Authorities have discovered dozens of tunnels burrowed under the border in recent years, many of them incomplete. U.S. authorities typically destroy the tunnels.NO AMNESTY
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10-30-2009, 12:42 AM #2
Secret, Sophisticated Border Tunnel Found
By MICHELLE WAYLAND and GREG BLEDSOE
Updated 11:45 AM PDT, Thu, Oct 29, 2009
Stopped in its tracks, but still a threat to the U.S.
A sophisticated underground border tunnel was discovered this week feet away from crossing the U.S./Mexico border into San Diego County.
Mexican authorities discovered the tunnel at a vacant warehouse in Tijuana. It was only ten feet underground, which agents say is fairly shallow compared to others they've found. However, they say this is a very sophisticated tunnel with electricity and flowing oxygen.
It’s 300 feet long, but stops just short of crossing the border into the U.S. Agents believe it was still under construction.
When tunnels do cross into the United States and are discovered, the U.S. will fill them in, and seal them off.
Unfortunately, Mexico does not have the same policy. So, ICE agents say this most recent tunnel could potentially remain a threat.
"It's a very viable threat and they were almost there. So, if they don't remediate that tunnel in Mexico, they could use what's already built, and veer off and go into the United States," U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement spokesperson Tim Durst said.
There have been more than two-dozen tunnels found along the U.S. Mexico border over the past year -- which is more than last year, or the year before.
ICE does say the agency is working with Mexican authorities and other U.S. law enforcement agencies to improve intelligence gathering and test out new technology, like radars, to help find border tunnels.
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