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ICE via AP
The unfinished tunnel discovered by authorities in Tijuana designed to smuggle drugs into the United States.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Thursday that an approximately 220-yard passage, pictured at right, was lit and ventilated. It began under a bathroom sink inside a warehouse in Tijuana and did not cross the border into San Diego.
AP's report on the incomplete tunnel from Tijuana also mentions another found recently in Arizona:
Elsewhere, a 240-yard completed passage was discovered less than a week ago near Yuma, Ariz. U.S. authorities say that tunnel was operational.
As U.S. authorities heighten enforcement on land, tunnels have become an increasingly common way to smuggle enormous loads of marijuana into the country. More than 70 passages have been found on the border since October 2008, surpassing the number of discoveries in the previous six years.
DEA via AFP - Getty Images
This image provided by the US Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA) on Thursday shows the US Entrance to a cross border tunnel linking a commercial building in San Luis, Arizona to Mexico that was discovered through a probe conducted by the DEA. The DEA on Thursday announced the details of a 240-yard (219m)passageway that was equipped with lighting and ventilation. US Justice Department officials say the sophisticated tunnel was used to transport drugs from Mexico to the commercial building on the Arizona side. Authorities said the investigation also included arrests and drug seizures.
DEA via AFP - Getty Images
The US Entrance to a cross border tunnel linking a commercial building in San Luis, Arizona to Mexico.
DEA via AFP - Getty Images
The cross border tunnel linking a commercial building in San Luis, Arizona to Mexico.
DEA via AFP - Getty Images
DEA image of 39 pounds(14.5kg) of methamphetamines recovered by officials from a cross border tunnel linking a commercial building in San Luis, Arizona to Mexico.
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We will need those tunnels for Mexican glaucoma medicine when ObamaCare kicks in.
Most veryone that would eat the hemp oil unheated woulden't need abomanation care. All the docters used it to CURE people before the drug com. had it outlawed. Now you get medicated for life instead with liver toxic drugs. Basterds
I'm sure they were smuggling more than just marijuana through the tunnel. It is a modern day "underground railroad". Moving illegal immigrants and illegal drugs from Mexico to the US. I am okay with the legalization and taxation of marijuana...but that's where I draw the line. Many of these illegal immigrant females end up as "sex" slaves. We need to spend less money on enforcing marijuana possession and distribution laws and less rhetoric and more accountable action to enforce illegal immigration.
More like old and closed minded, lol.
if everyone has medical insurance thats a bad thing? Insurance companies rally fear to keep it samo samo don't get caught up in the propaganda.
"We will need those tunnels for Mexican glaucoma medicine when ObamaCare kicks in"
The republican statement that drugs from other countries are bad...funny don't hear of mass die offs of Canadians or Britons...or Europeans in general all who pay in general 75% less for their drugs but thats then your buyoff of pharmaceutical companies.
Oh and hey .... lets not even mention the fact that these tunnels went right under Bushies multi-billion dollar border fence with state of the art electronics. Fixed fortifications...the folly of mankind.
Here is an idea, why don't we legalize marijuana and put a tax on it. That way we
eliminate the smugglers reason to bring it into the US and we help get rid of our
crushing debt at the same time.
There ya go now Don...making all kinds of sense. You know we can't have that happening in this country. lol
the republicans wont have nothing to do with this idea . It would help reduce the deficite and low to middle class people might start the economy going in the right direction again
How about we fire all the politians and skip the tax ? Totally get big brother gov. out of the drug bussiness.I'll vote for that any day.
how about 20 million hinney holes go to washington dc & shut that $hit hole down???...
Wel IF we legalize and tax marijuana that means we have to put Tariffs on Mexico's cartels - like THAT'S going to happen! And IF we legalize marijuana, it will still be grown in Mexico and then the cartels OWN US and the crime will SKYROCKET like none other in this country. I live in Iowa, the trafficking is bad enough here, we don't want what IS here and sure as Hell don't want more of it.
There would be NO trafficking in Iowa or anywhere else if the stuff were legal. Are there very many bootleggers in Iowa now? I'm sure there used to be...during prohibition. Further, if pot were a legal crop I doubt there would be much need to import the stuff from anywhere else. I don't know if it would grow well in Iowa, but it grows well in the southeast and southwest...and would grow anywhere in the world indoors. Make pot legal, and even with taxation the price would be a sliver of what it is now...thus no trafficking in marijuana. Legal, controlled, safer, no violence, no gangs, just like alcohol. People are going to get it and smoke it no matter what you do, just like with alcohol. Might as well legalize it and make the best of it all the way around.
So, what else is new? These kinds of operations have been
going on for decades!!! All that is new is that the top brass in these border
towns made all the money that they could, and now they got to show something to
keep the Feds happy. That’s all there is to it!!! Demagogue pricks!!! Feeding
all us Manure, and most of us eat it too!!!
Boy, leave it to the conservatives to give tea-bagging a bad name. Knowing that some of them have co-opted the name takes most of the fun out of it for me. I used to LOVE getting steeped...now, well...o.k., it's still good but conservatives just piss me off.
Get them ....
cant we set off some bunker buster bombs along the boarder ?
Leroy-344013: Cain't do it. The resulting shockwave could upset the fault line and send California into the ocean and that would be bad........right?
Reminiscent of tunnels dug during WWll from POW camps.
Read the book or see the movie "The Great Escape", Escape from Colditz, The Wooden Horse, etc.....
Cong tunnels in Nam.....
funny... did anyone notice the caption under the meth photo says there were "39" pounds seized, yet I only count 38? I wonder who has that missing package? haha
All of it will be back on the street again, you can bet on that. They just got taxed one hundred percent.
More likely it was an MSNBC typo. There are as many typos on this website as there are corrupt Mexican officials....and that's a lot!
LOL that was the first thing I saw too.....and as Mark-Wolf says it will be back on the street in no time
The moffea gov. on both sides of the border must not have been getting their cut.
As a former smoker guys, listen to me! It'll turn your IQ into a small ladies dress size... and some ain't got all that much to play with! Drop that garbage while you can.
As a current smoker... This has been proven wrong time and time again. Study after study... I'm pretty sure Carl Sagan's IQ was a small lady's dress size when he came up with brilliant ideas for astrological physics and what not, huh? Yet, somehow this myth rages on. Keith, you are obviously one of those "ain't got all that much to play with."
Then you must have been smoking meth along with it
Why is no one asking who owns these businesses that the tunnels link? Wouldn't the paper trail generated form the real estate records help finger the bosses?
Basically that would be following the money. Not sure why it wasn't mentioned but am sure it was investigated. They couldn't be that stupid could they? Ongoing maybe? or... Haliburton Property rented by Eric Holder?!?! LOL
people hate pot that have not smoked it people hate meth that have and somehow survived
Another angle for digging tunnels:
I think most of you are idiots. Until you are ready to fight (take up arms if needed) you will never stop the drugs coming into this country. It is coming in from every direction and across every boarder. If you find tunnels don’t announce it. Pack them bad boys with enough explosives and trip wires to blow the next group of drug dealers and their helpers along with the drugs back to the country they come from. If they have a problem with it they can take it up with God in person. We can help them arrange the meeting. Stop playing
games it is called “War On Drugs” so let’s get in the trenches, dig in and fight a real war on drugs. Rack up the
enemy body count put it on the evening news and we can get the job done. Let’s give them a good dose of shock and awe “Remember The Alamo”. God help us if we don’t.
@nighthawk... This is why I am no longer necessarily "Proud" to call myself an American. We as a country are getting more ignorant each election cycle. The fact that we have no intellectual thinking, but only pop culture bull@!$%# and people interest story nonsense all over the news, which is all controlled by the same power elite, means that people like this @!$%# thinks it's ok to bomb and kill people, no matter what the circumstance. In this case, it is to promote an idiotic campaign against a human right and basic freedom. The government has no business telling us that we can't ingest something, so long as we don't do any bodily harm to another. What happened to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? What happened to FREEDOM??? The constitution and the hemp paper it is written on is being torched these days. A sick America is mentally enslaved in a private prison/military industrial complex. Eisenhower was a brilliant future teller. I noticed also that nighthawk referred to God a lot, which is quite hilarious in all its hypocrisy. Americans need to keep God out of politics, where there is no business for religion. Only common sense, modernized law based on our understanding of the world we know as it is today, not thousands of years ago.
travis you have the brains of a Snail
Just so you all keep some perspective on truth the low grade mj that comes from Mexico is not medical grade it doesn't even look the same. But the street has a demand for this low priced crap 50 an ounce so that that in consideration when they way over inflate the value of the bust.
Based on what I see.. they do some pretty good work! If we could actually catch the perps with those skills, and have them forced to do free manual labor for us, like build low cost housing, then we could get somewhere!
More tunnels are in the making as we speak. They'll all never be found. The U.S. politicians doesn't want them discovered. Get a clue. Ditch-digging does pay big!
I'd just like to know where the 39th pound of meth. is? The article says 39 lbs but there are only 38 in the picture.