Over 21 tunnels found since 09/11 Mexico/Arizona/California

LadyEagle · Jan 30, 2006

Technology proves ineffective at foiling tunnels under U.S.-Mexico border

By Elliot Spagat
ASSOCIATED PRESS

12:48 p.m. January 30, 2006

SAN DIEGO – A U.S. government effort to find drug-smuggling tunnels underneath the Mexican border with ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech gear has had little success.
Human intelligence has proven to be the most effective method of finding the passageways. A case in point: The longest tunnel ever found along the border was discovered last week after a tip.

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The tunnels appear to be concentrated on Mexico's border with California and Arizona – 21 have been discovered in the two states since Sept. 11, 2001, and 15 during the previous 11 years. Four have been found this month between Tijuana and San Diego.

In July, authorities reported the first secret tunnel along the U.S.-Canadian border. The passage, which was reinforced with ribbed steel bars and wood supports, linked a Quonset hut in Langley, British Columbia, to a living room in Lynden, Wash.

Many are found by sheer luck. Last week, a Border Patrol vehicle hit a sinkhole near San Diego's San Ysidro port of entry, the nation's busiest border crossing, uncovering what officials described as a primitive passage.
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I've no doubt some terrorists have slipped through and possibly some suitcase nukes and other WMDs. I heard somewhere there were a total of 30 something since 09/11, so that may include some other border states in that total. Would be interested to see if anyone finds out additional numbers.

We are sitting ducks. How many are yet to be discovered?

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