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Another drug tunnel found at US-Mexico border
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/11/27/10/ne...
Reuters
11/27/2010
SAN DIEGO – US border agents said on Friday they had found a multimillion dollar drug-smuggling tunnel under the US-Mexico border that is more
sophisticated than one discovered less than three weeks ago in the same area.
The tunnel is half a mile long and reaches to about 90 feet deep, contains two entrances on the US side of the border and is outfitted with advanced
rail, electrical and ventilation systems, officials with the San Diego Tunnel Task Force said.
On the Mexican side the underground passage, which is tall enough for a grown man to stand in, emerges in the kitchen of a stucco house in Tijuana,
where it is capped with a hydraulic steel door, the officials said.
The tunnel walls are fortified with wood and cinderblock supports, and the Tijuana house has a garage large enough to accommodate deliveries by large
trucks.
Eight people have been arrested in connection with the discovery and agents seized more than 20 tons of marijuana, said Tim Durst, assistant special
agent in charge for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations.
"I think this was the cartel's favorite tunnel," Durst said at a press conference to announce the bust. "It took at least one to two million dollars
to build this tunnel, but if you think about the returns, it's worth it."
The tunnel starts with a single shaft on the Mexican side of the border but branches into a Y-shape with two passages leading to separate warehouses
in the Otay Mesa district of San Diego. Another spur leads to an underground storage room where agents say they found 6,000 pounds of marijuana.
The tunnel was discovered on Thursday morning when agents from the Task Force conducting surveillance noticed suspicious activity by a truck arriving
at one of the Otay Mesa warehouses, authorities said.
When US Border Patrol agents stopped the truck at a traffic checkpoint, they discovered more than 27,000 pounds of marijuana inside, officials said.
The tunnel was found about 650 feet south of another sophisticated drug tunnel which was discovered on November 2.
That shaft, which measured 1,800 feet and was also equipped with a rail system, lighting and ventilation, yielded some 30 tons of marijuana, one of
the largest such seizures on the border in recent years.
Mexico is in the grip of a raging drug war that has killed more than 30,000 people south of the border since December 2006, when President Felipe
Calderon launched a crackdown on powerful drug gangs.
Mexican cartels have bored scores of tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years to beat ramped-up security at ports of entry and the rugged
spaces in between. Nearly all of them linked cities on either side of Mexico's border with California and Arizona.
Tijuana is the principal gateway for drugs entering California from Mexico. Last month, authorities there seized more than 100 tonnes of marijuana
valued at more than $340 million in Mexico's biggest pot haul to date.
Several federal and local police agencies are part of a special task force to search for tunnels running under the border in the San Diego area, which
has soft, loamy soil that lends itself to tunneling.
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Photo:
Rails are seen inside a tunnel discovered in Tijuana November 25, 2010. According to local media, authorities found a drug smuggler's tunnel linking
the northern border city of Tijuana with the United States. The tunnel was fully operational with a ventilation system and electricity, and rails for
the transportation of narcotics.
Photo by Jorge Duenes
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Jeeeezo...what's goin' on here? Arn't there Lazers or Sonar to find these anomalies in the ground? Eventually, the whole border is going to cave in.
How do Bunker-Buster Bombs find their target?
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so close to the first one !! who woulda thunk.
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Nice tile work! 
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Probably unrealistic, but you always wonder if there was no war on drugs. Would there then be no war in TJ?
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Dennis, Homeland Security is using ground penetrating radar to find tunnels, but it is only good to about 15 meters down. This tunnel was nearly
twice that.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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toneart
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Jeezo! For a few pesos more they could have installed some decorative lighting.
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Wow, that is a lot of medicine, ha ha ha, I just crack myself up. JH
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Legalize Pot! It's just plain stupid to keep funding the drug cartels. The law enforcement guys could go for the real criminals or go home.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBruno
Dennis, Homeland Security is using ground penetrating radar to find tunnels, but it is only good to about 15 meters down. This tunnel was nearly
twice that. |
That makes it around a hundred feet below the surface? I didn't see that part.
Thanks, Bruno.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Jeeeezo...what's goin' on here? Arn't there Lazers or Sonar to find these anomalies in the ground? Eventually, the whole border is going to cave in.
How do Bunker-Buster Bombs find their target? |
great military technologies for Afgahnastan but DHS doesn't
want in military involvement along border, except for the Predator drones.
Bob Durrell
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Could you imagine what it might be like if the money spent on the unsuccessful "War On Drugs" was spent on health care, treatment, and management of
substance use?
Alcohol is the most frequently abused drug in North America and, aside from obesity and tobacco, contributes most to health care costs.
Prohibition didn't work decades ago.....it still isn't working...
The "war" mentality clearly is a failure.
Could you imagine the notion of "wellness' being a focus????
Don't believe everything you think....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BooJumMan
Probably unrealistic, but you always wonder if there was no war on drugs. Would there then be no war in TJ? |
I think the answer is a resounding "YES"
carpe diem!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by lencho
| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Legalize Pot! It's just plain stupid to keep funding the drug cartels. The law enforcement guys could go for the real criminals or go home.
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Well of course, but I have a nagging suspicion it's not that simple... what's going to happen with all these trained criminals when their primary
source of employment dries up? 
--Larry |
there are always people and businesses to extort money from and kidnap for ransom... they'll get by.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by lencho
| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Legalize Pot! It's just plain stupid to keep funding the drug cartels. The law enforcement guys could go for the real criminals or go home.
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Well of course, but I have a nagging suspicion it's not that simple... what's going to happen with all these trained criminals when their primary
source of employment dries up?
--Larry |
Oh I suspect they would go into some other venture so we could create another expensive, unsuccessful "war". Or like some of the old crime gangs,
they could spend their time managing their business created from the money laundering.
But this war is not working, and I doubt it ever will----I am on the let's legalize it all side. Lost a brother to drug and alcohol addiction and I
am not sure if it was the "legal" drug or the "illegal" drug that caused his demise.
But I also agree with Tony---they really needed a decorator for that tunnel---
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Legalization is the only hope of ending this madness. Removing the illegal profit motive is the only thing that will work. Everything else has been
proven not to work. The old argument that legalization will make drugs easier to get, and will result in more drug use, is grossly fallacious.
Illegal drugs are easy to get. Anyone who wants them can get as much as he/she wants. That is not a function of legal/illegal. My son-in-law had no
trouble getting as much illegal heroin as he wanted before he died of an overdose. Maybe if some of the illegal profits he paid to the cartels had
gone to a recovery program he would still be alive.
carpe diem!
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Legalization won't be a cure-all. I'll use "auto parts" as an example. They're legal, of course, but there's a thriving black market for them.
Drugs will be subject to effective marketing. Sell at a lower price than the legal source and business will boom.
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[Edited on 11-28-2010 by DENNIS]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Legalization won't be a cure-all. I'll use "auto parts" as an example. They're legal, of course, but there's a thriving black market for them.
Drugs will be subject to effective marketing. Sell at a lower price than the legal source and business will boom.
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[Edited on 11-28-2010 by DENNIS] |
Like everything else in life, DENNIS, you weigh the pluses and the minuses. Nothing is pure black, nothing pure white, only shades of gray.
Legalization, while perhaps not perfect, is clearly the best option we have.
carpe diem!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Legalization won't be a cure-all. I'll use "auto parts" as an example. They're legal, of course, but there's a thriving black market for them.
Drugs will be subject to effective marketing. Sell at a lower price than the legal source and business will boom.
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[Edited on 11-28-2010 by DENNIS] |
Like everything else in life, DENNIS, you weigh the pluses and the minuses. Nothing is pure black, nothing pure white, only shades of gray.
Legalization, while perhaps not perfect, is clearly the best option we have. |
Well said----and yes, there will probably still be a black market, just like there is for cigarettes and "legal" drugs, AKA prescription meds that
come from both Canada and Mexico.
It takes out the BiG money. And it would save A LOT of money in California with a HUGE reduction in the prison population as so many of the crimes
are all about drugs---selling of them or doing crimes to support the habits.
But, on the other side, there are way too many people in high places making way too much money on both sides of the border who do not want to stop the
"war". It is very profitable to many.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Legalization won't be a cure-all. I'll use "auto parts" as an example. They're legal, of course, but there's a thriving black market for them.
Drugs will be subject to effective marketing. Sell at a lower price than the legal source and business will boom.
[Edited on 11-28-2010 by DENNIS] |
denny boy:
auto parts analogy? are there auto parts cartels? i think you are wrong. alcohol and nicotine are legal and don't have significant black markets.
legal pot will eventually have legal trade in pot. i am sure that big tobacco or another sin merchant is salivating to get into legal pot sales.
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