Thread: Seven cross-border tunnels to be filled in

Seven cross-border tunnels to be filled in


SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES

4:40 a.m. March 7, 2007

SAN DIEGO – The Department of Homeland Security will fill seven cross-border tunnels, including a nearly half-mile long tunnel that extends from San Diego to Tijuana, it was reported Wednesday.
The decision to fill the tunnels comes after it was reported in January that the tunnels had not been filled, largely because of jurisdictional issues and a lack of money.

“We have the funding and are moving forward,” said Michael Friel, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, the agency responsible for detecting and filling in tunnels, according to The Los Angeles Times. The $2.74-million project is targeted for completion by mid-May, Friel told Times.

The tunnels include two between Calexico and Mexicali, as well as the longest tunnel ever discovered between Mexico and the United States, a passage nearly a half-mile long connecting warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana.

Another tunnel, which has remained unfilled for 13 years, is known as the “Taj Mahal” because of its lighting system and reinforced concrete walls.

Because of increasing enforcement above ground, smugglers have been going underground to ferry drugs and people into the United States. In the last few years, authorities have discovered nearly 50 tunnels, most of them with a terminus in California or Arizona.

Authorities have tried to seal the larger tunnels, plugging them with concrete at the exit points and at the border, but leaving the areas in between largely intact. At least two tunnels – one with an exit in Nogales, Ariz., and the other with an exit in San Diego – were reused by smugglers who dug around the cap to access the original passage.

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It's about time.

Originally Posted by CCUSA

It's about time.

I was going to say the same thing! These tunnels have been left open almost a month or more after they were first discovered.
Homeland Security is a joke.

What crap the cost is, thats so hard to believe, blow up the tunnels they will fill in automatically, how much could that cost!!

Homeland Security is an inept government bureaucacy! They probably had to get the approval of the environmentalists, too because bats had taken up residence.

Wait til you see what government run healthcare looks like!!!

Originally Posted by olivermyboy

Homeland Security is an inept government bureaucacy! They probably had to get the approval of the environmentalists, too because bats had taken up residence.

Wait til you see what government run healthcare looks like!!!

I'm still not over the shock of anchor babies, thank you!!

Just pump in sewerage send some south :P

The $2.74-million project is targeted for completion by mid-May, Friel told Times.

Dang! This is gonna put a big dent in our YoYo purchase next year. We've only got 1.25 million to spend on them now.

Originally Posted by loservillelabor

The $2.74-million project is targeted for completion by mid-May, Friel told Times.

Dang! This is gonna put a big dent in our YoYo purchase next year. We've only got 1.25 million to spend on them now.

I want to know what they are fillling them with, GOLD!!

loservillelabor wrote:

Dang!

This is gonna put a big dent in our YoYo purchase next year. We've only got 1.25 million to spend on them now.

Got it!!!

Oliver