Thread: U.S. authorities find exit to lengthy cross-border tunnel

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Technology proves ineffective at foiling tunnels under U.S.-Mexico border


By Elliot Spagat
ASSOCIATED PRESS

12:48 p.m. January 30, 2006

SAN DIEGO – A U.S. government effort to find drug-smuggling tunnels underneath the Mexican border with ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech gear has had little success.
Human intelligence has proven to be the most effective method of finding the passageways. A case in point: The longest tunnel ever found along the border was discovered last week after a tip.

The Homeland Security Department said Monday that a Mexican man, Carlos Cardenas Calvillo, was arrested in connection with the 2,400-foot tunnel, which went as deep as 90 feet and was about 5 feet in height and 5 feet wide. He was to be arraigned in federal court on charges of conspiracy to import more than a ton of marijuana.

“The problem is the technology picks up some kind of anomaly or variation of soil,â€

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Tunnelers began in '04, officials say


Digging probably started long before users secured exit site on U.S. side
By Onell R. Soto and Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
January 31, 2006

The drug cartel that built the cross-border tunnel discovered last week was working on spec, starting construction more than a year before gaining control of the Otay Mesa warehouse that would eventually serve as an exit.

In fact, the diggers headed to a potential exit farther east, but probably stopped digging when a front company for drug traffickers began efforts to buy or lease the 50,000-square-foot warehouse on Siempre Viva Road, a little less than half a mile from the border, authorities said.
It's unclear whether the tunnel, the longest ever discovered along the border, was initially headed for another warehouse, or, as other drug tunnels have, for the area's storm drains, which run for miles.

“They could have been digging this for years, just looking for a place to come up,â€

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One question about these doggone tunnels:

Why can't they use the same technology to detect the tunnels under our own border that they were capable of employing to detect tunnels under the Korean DMZ thirty years ago? Aren't our borders important enough to protect?

In addition, they employed the SAME type of technology to fly over and discover that there are literally hundreds of pyramids in Egypt and South America that haven't been excavated yet.

This is US technology, by the way.

I ask again, WHY can't we employ our own technology on our own borders?