U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations special agents teamed up with Mexican law enforcement officials in Mexicali, Baja California, to locate and seize a sophisticated smuggling tunnel on August 2, according to information obtained from ICE officials.
The team discovered a tunnel inside a home in Mexicali located along the border with California, officials stated. The tunnel ran approximately 183 feet at about 22 feet below the surface to a location approximately three feet north of the border wall in Calexico, California, officials reported.
While the tunnel did not yet have an exit in California, the entrance to the three-foot by four-foot tunnel measured approximately 12 feet by ten feet and utilized an electric hoist to lower the people or drugs underground. The drug traffickers installed an electrical system, ventilation, and a rail cart system to move their cargo through the tunnel.
Cardell T. Morant, special agent in charge of HSI San Diego said in a written statement:
"These types of tunnels enable drug traffickers to conduct illicit activities virtually undetected across the U.S.-Mexico border. Discovering and shutting down these tunnels deals a major blow to drug trafficking organizations because it denies them the ability to smuggle drugs, weapons, and people across the border.
"This is an ongoing HSI-led investigation with assistance from the El Centro Sector Border Patrol and the government of Mexico. The HSI San Diego Tunnel Task Force thanks the government of Mexico for its cooperation in this investigation."
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Reader Comments
Was anyone busted though? The fact that no one was means the government tipped off the tunnel's sponsors. The fact the article doesn't mention the word 'arrest' means likely no one was. (Here's the ICE announcement [Link] ; it surely looks like they got tipped off.)
RC
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Of course, nowadays, anyone with a clue would know how such would end: A helicopter gunship would take him out or maybe a TOW type missile fired from the ground; THAT is what any 'resisters' can look forward to - all of these high tech weapons taking them out and pronto. Going to hide? How? Stop giving off body heat? (Think of the guy who shot that abortion doctor - he was good and he hid in the woods for months but he got busted scrounging through a dumpster and was probably just too downtrodden to care anymore - after all, even in solitary, you get two hots and a cot.)
I'm pessimistic as hell about all things, but one thing I don't see happening in my time is Russians invading. Nuking us after we nuke them, that's still possible, I guess.
RC
Great sniper scene which all will remember is in Full Metal Jacket, after the Parris Island classmates become Marines and go to Vietnam, they run into a sniper who devastates them. Comes right after the part where Wooley Bully is on the soundtrack.
You want an entertaining sniper movie, check out Shooter. Very well done - but with typical Hollywood ending of course. The chick in it is SO hot!
You want a hairy battle scene: The Thin Red Line is slow but when they take the Nip bunker, it's hairy.
RC