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Taco de Baja
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Tunnel, 20 tons of pot found at California-Mexico border
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16513224
Tunnel, 20 tons of pot found at California-Mexico border
Associated Press
Posted: 11/03/2010 11:45:16 AM PDT
Updated: 11/03/2010 12:44:32 PM PDT
SAN DIEGO -- U.S. authorities have discovered 20 tons of pot near a tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of California's border with Mexico.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack says today that the tunnel ran 600 yards under the border near San Diego. It had
lighting, ventilation and a rail system for sending carts of drugs into the United States.
Mack says the tunnel ended close to California's Otay Mesa port of entry.
Officials have found 125 tunnels since they started recording them in the early 1990s. Of those, 75 have been found in the past four years, most along
the California and Arizona border with Mexico.
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Brian L
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Wouldn't need the tunnels if Prop 19 had passed...
Brian
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Woooosh
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I wonder how close the tunnel was to the truckloads of pot found last week.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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BajaNews
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TJ-SD tunnel discovered; over 24 (?) tons of marijuana inside
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/nov/03/border-tunnel-discovere...
By Amy Isackson
November 3, 2010
Tijuana — United States and Mexican authorities have discovered a drug-smuggling tunnel that runs between a warehouse in Tijuana and one in Otay Mesa
in San Diego.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities say they discovered 20 tons of marijuana in the warehouse on the U.S. side.
Meanwhile, Mexican soldiers say they confiscated 4.5 tons of marijuana at the tunnel's entrance on their side. Soldiers standing guard outside the
two-story cement block building in Tijuana say the tunnel drops about 18 feet under ground before heading beneath the border fence to San Diego.
The building in Tijuana is about a half block from a Pioneer factory, or maquiladora, where electronics devices are assembled for the U.S. The border
fence is just on the other side of that factory.
ICE officials say the tunnel isn't tall enough to walk through, so smugglers would have to crawl. ICE officials say the department's national
director, John Morton, will tour the tunnel later this afternoon, along with San Diego's U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy and other federal officials.
A massive drug smuggling tunnel was unearthed not far from this one in 2006. It plunged more that 80 feet underground before surfacing inside an
enormous warehouse in Otay Mesa and was equipped with lighting, drainage and ventilation systems.
U.S. authorities say drug smugglers have resorted to using tunnels to pass illicit material across the border as border enforcement above ground has
gotten tougher.
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Woooosh
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can't believe you got beat to the post by a taco, even if only by seconds.
you could be the first one to post about the tourist robbed and shot in Rosarito Beach yesterday though... 
[Edited on 11-3-2010 by Woooosh]
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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Gypsy Jan
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Sophisticated Smuggling Tunnel Containing Rail System, Oxygen Pumps, And 30 Tons of Marijuana Discovered
"It's not pretty, but this hole in the ground is the sign of an expert drug smuggler. It's part of a 600-yard tunnel under the California-Mexico
border and it connects a warehouse in Tijuana with one in San Diego.
Now while some might think that a smuggling tunnel like this is little more than a plot device in Weeds, it seems it's not terribly uncommon—in fact,
about 125 have been discovered since the 1990s. The only trouble is that it's quite tough to actually find them. There are special U.S. border tunnel
task forces dedicated to tracking them down and they use the latest ground-penetrating technology as well as robot scouts to search for and through
them.
Despite all that tech, there aren't too many details available to us about the recently discovered tunnel in the photo above. We do know that it
definitely housed a reasonably high-tech operation considering that it contained proper rail, lighting and ventilation systems as well as 30 tons of
marijuana. [CNN]"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/03/san.diego.border.tunnel/...
[Edited on 11-4-2010 by Gypsy Jan]
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DENNIS
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Pot is a renewable resource. This will only hurt somebody for a little while.
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Cypress
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Just legalize pot. The govt. has no business telling me what I can or cannot smoke, eat, or drink. For that matter just close down the ATF and
legalize all drugs or drinks. Prohibition didn't work and keeping drugs illegal isn't working.
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mcfez
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Amazing, if Prop 19 had passed, Cali would have just come into $20 mil of free revenue. Gotta love it.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
Amazing, if Prop 19 had passed, Cali would have just come into $20 mil of free revenue. Gotta love it. |
California law doesn't trump federal law, even if the voters want it that way.....which I guess they don't.
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Pompano
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Does smoking pot make you
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Pot is a renewable resource. This will only hurt somebody for a little while. |
Very well stated Dennis!
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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Does smoking pot make you |
uh, .......... dunno
Don't believe everything you think....
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Phil S
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Well, I guess the voters have a message for you "pot" smokers. They don't want it.
Can't say that I blame them. sure ruined my sons life. He started with marajuana he said, and progressed to the "other drugs". Now 16 years later,
his daughter (who started with marajuana she said) and in about one year, was using needles to get her 'high'. So go ahead youse guys & girls,
who obviously have not had to go through this with your kids, keep promoting legal useage of drugs, and people like my wife & my family and my
friends & their families & their friends, etc, etc. etc. will keep voting down your lousy ballot measures until you give
up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We got the clinical marajuana measure in Oregon defeated. Always the 'users versus the smart ones'!!!!! When will it ever stop? We will always
prevail!!!! For those that wonder: grandaughter has now spent two times in a drug rehab center. And a gorgeous thing at that. And only 16. What a
waste. Now clean. But the question will always be there. For how long clean????? Prayers help a little!!!!
[Edited on 11-4-2010 by Phil S]
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Cypress
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Phil S, Sorry that your family has addictive issues with illegal drugs. That's the point! It makes no sense to make a substance illegal that is
available to teenagers in any town in the US. Legalize it just like alcohol. Legalize pot and control it.
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Just legalize pot. The govt. has no business telling me what I can or cannot smoke, eat, or drink. For that matter just close down the ATF and
legalize all drugs or drinks. Prohibition didn't work and keeping drugs illegal isn't working. |
tobacco is
still legal but the government still tells us we can't smoke it almost everywhere
Bob Durrell
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Brian L
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Phil S. Sorry about that too, but it sounds like some people have addictive personalities, and no matter what there is, they'll use it and abuse it.
If it was legal (starting at the federal level), think of the money that would be saved in policing it. Think of the revenue to make in taxes...
Sure it wouldn't be perfect, but neither is alcohol and tobacco...
Brian
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Cypress
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I don't smoke pot, used to way back when, I'm lazy enough without being zonked on pot. The law enforcement agencies could direct their resources to
real criminals and leave the harmless drug users alone, save a lot of money. We have too much govt. and too many laws.
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MrBillM
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Going to Pot !
For Refuge from Reality ?
Best line I heard today on the news was the California Gal that said "When I saw that they'd re-elected Barbara Boxer, I wished that they HAD
legalized Pot".
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monoloco
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Phil S
Well, I guess the voters have a message for you "pot" smokers. They don't want it.
Can't say that I blame them. sure ruined my sons life. He started with marajuana he said, and progressed to the "other drugs". Now 16 years later,
his daughter (who started with marajuana she said) and in about one year, was using needles to get her 'high'. So go ahead youse guys & girls,
who obviously have not had to go through this with your kids, keep promoting legal useage of drugs, and people like my wife & my family and my
friends & their families & their friends, etc, etc. etc. will keep voting down your lousy ballot measures until you give
up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We got the clinical marajuana measure in Oregon defeated. Always the 'users versus the smart ones'!!!!! When will it ever stop? We will always
prevail!!!! For those that wonder: grandaughter has now spent two times in a drug rehab center. And a gorgeous thing at that. And only 16. What a
waste. Now clean. But the question will always be there. For how long clean????? Prayers help a little!!!!
[Edited on 11-4-2010 by Phil S] |
Blaming it on a herb is easier than examining one's parenting skills, or
lack there of. I have observed that children whose parents are actively involved in their lives don't have drug problems. This is no different than
saying alcohol should be illegal because some people will become alcoholics.
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