Sunday, August 27, 2017

ANOTHER NARCOMEX TUNNEL UNDER U.S. OPEN BORDERS - BORDER AGENTS ARREST 23 CHINESE AND 7 MEXICANS CRAWLING UNDER BORDER

US border agents finds smuggling tunnel spanning US-Mexico border and arrest 23 Chinese nationals and seven Mexicans




  • US border patrol agents saw a group of people around 1.30am on Saturday

  • When the group saw the agents, some ran back into the cross-border tunnel

  • Authorities say the tunnel starts at a building in Tijuana and stretches less than a mile long into the US

  • Of those arrested, 23 were Chinese nationals and seven were Mexican nationals

US border patrol agents discovered a new hidden tunnel running from Mexico that led to the arrest of 30 illegal immigrants.
Around 1.30am on Saturday, agents patrolling at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California, saw a group of several dozen people and tried to approach them for questioning.
Some people in the group ran back into what the agents discovered to be the exit of a cross-border tunnel with a ladder inside near Drucker Lane and Siempre Viva Road.
Agents made 30 arrests both inside and outside the tunnel. Of those arrested, 23 were Chinese nationals and seven were Mexican nationals.
US border patrol agents have arrested 30 illegal immigrants after they tried to cross into the country through a newly discovered hidden tunnel leading from Mexico (pictured)
US border patrol agents have arrested 30 illegal immigrants after they tried to cross into the country through a newly discovered hidden tunnel leading from Mexico (pictured)
According to investigators, the tunnel began in a building in the Garita de Otay area in Tijuana, approximately 328 feet south of the US-Mexico border in San Diego (Pictured, Otay Mesa port of entry)
According to investigators, the tunnel began in a building in the Garita de Otay area in Tijuana, approximately 328 feet south of the US-Mexico border in San Diego (Pictured, Otay Mesa port of entry)
According to investigators, the tunnel began in a building in the Garita de Otay area in Tijuana, approximately 328 feet south of the US-Mexico border in San Diego and three miles from the border crossing bridge. 
The opening to the tunnel had been covered by dry bush and branches. 
Mexican authorities are working to determine who is responsible for the build-out and operation of the smuggling tunnel.
Authorities say this is the 13th underground passageway discovered along California's border with Mexico since 2006.
The use of such tunnels is not new, but they have typically been used for drug smuggling. 
As of 4pm on Saturday, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent Eduardo Olmos told NBC 7 that no drugs had been discovered inside the tunnel.
ean tunnels are not a new occurrence along the California-Mexico border, they are more commonly utilized by transnational criminal organizations to smuggle narcotics.
'However, as this case demonstrates, law enforcement has also identified instances where such tunnels were used to facilitate human smuggling.' 
The use of such tunnels (route highlighted in red) is not new, but they have typically been used for drug smuggling. As of 4pm on Saturday, no drugs had been discovered inside the tunnel
The use of such tunnels (route highlighted in red) is not new, but they have typically been used for drug smuggling. As of 4pm on Saturday, no drugs had been discovered inside the tunnel
'Preliminarily it appears this latest tunnel may be an extension of an incomplete tunnel previously discovered and seized by Mexican authorities,' the CBP wrote in a press release.
'While subterran
Lawmen are worried that the cartel tunnel builders on the Mexican border are now using their engineered concoctions to smuggle illegals, not merely drugs. That's what the Daily Caller has found, describing the new anxiety as one was discovered...

Border tunnels now servicing illegals

Lawmen are worried that the cartel tunnel builders on the Mexican border are now using their engineered concoctions to smuggle illegals, not merely drugs.
That's what the Daily Caller has found, describing the new anxiety as one was discovered over the weekend, catching about 30 illegals coming in from Mexico and China:
It is not uncommon for agents to find subterranean tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border, especially in California and Arizona, however, this specific type of tunnel was a rare find:
While subterranean tunnels are not a new occurrence along the California-Mexico border, they are more commonly utilized by transnational criminal organizations to smuggle narcotics. However, as this case demonstrates, law enforcement has also identified instances where such tunnels were used to facilitate human smuggling.
What concerns U.S. officials about human smuggling tunnels is that they leave the U.S. particularly vulnerable to infiltration byIslamic terrorists and other dangerous criminals.
It signals that Mexico's cartels and criminal gangs are innovating, a sure sign that they expect a border wall to go up, and their own intentions to evade it. There's already big money to be made in human smuggling - about a third of cartel profits as it is - so, more so now that it's growing more difficult to get in illegally with the border crackdown.
It's also opened up new avenues for terrorists, who can freely move in and out between borders if they get wind of one and the U.S. doesn't. We all know of cases in Europe where terrorist perpetrators have used the fluid borders of the European Union to evade capture for their crimes. We may be seeing the same thing here if the borders are not sealed shut.
On the illegal-migrant side of the equation, it means that perhaps the real way to border enforcement isn't in physical barriers, whether of tunnels or walls, but in keeping illegals out of the workforce through e-verify and raid-enforcement mechanisms, and keeping green cards and citizenship off limits except through legal channels under one set of laws for all applicants.
On the terrorist side of the equation, it means new developments in anti-tunnel technology to detect these illegal pathways must be accelerated and deployed just as surely as the wall's construction must be.
Apparently, it is going to take more than just a wall to gain control of U.S. borders.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4827472/US-border-agents-discover-tunnel-leading-Mexico.html#ixzz4qyriRq3V
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