MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's army has uncovered a 755-foot (230-meter) tunnel running under the Sonora-Arizona border that was used to smuggle drugs into the United States.
Mexico's defense secretariat says the tunnel linked a soon-to-be-opened ice and purified water business in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora to a business in San Luis, Arizona.
Gen. Raul Guereca said Saturday that the tunnel was 4.25 feet (1.3 meters) high and reached a depth of almost 60 feet (18 meters) below ground. It had electricity, ventilation and small cars to transport the drugs through the tunnel.
Officials did not say which cartel they thought had built the tunnel. As U.S. authorities have tightened land crossings, tunnels have become a popular way for Mexico's cartels to smuggle drugs and people into the U.S.
DrJCA1 posted at 2:44 pm on Sun, Jul 8, 2012.
When we discover tunnels, we need to install a camera system in there and when it's filled with drug smugglers, blow the thing up, wiping out a bunch of drug dealers and destroying a tunnel. Two birds, one stone.
sbergren posted at 3:16 pm on Sun, Jul 8, 2012.
Mr. Flake has been in office for almost 12 years and has shown no leadership. My idea of a leader in Congress is a person that has an idea, writes a bill and gets that bill made into law. Mr. Flake has done none of this in his time in office, all he has done is taken over 2.5 million in pay. Please, don't just trust me look at his record for yourself.
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Cum Suma posted at 7:10 pm on Sun, Jul 8, 2012.
OK...here is the truth...and you all know it. There are and there will be more tunnels. Destroying this one won't stop a thing. So...let's end the nonsense now and just set up toll booths at each end. Pay to leave one country and pay to enter the other country. At least we'd get some revenue for it. And, the cartels could pitch in a little something to each government...after all, it would save them the time, effort and money to keep building new ones. Oh, and don't let me forget the US companies that can't get enough of that cheap labor...let them pitch in as well.
Slabside posted at 12:00 am on Mon, Jul 9, 2012.
Drug tunnels = more future Obama voters burrowing in to cast their vote.
k33j88 posted at 4:20 am on Mon, Jul 9, 2012.
Awww schucks-----They're just looking for a better life. What a fine example for young mexicans to aspire to become. Besides, the democrats need them as voters.
soricobob posted at 6:13 am on Mon, Jul 9, 2012.
230 meters, only Ronald Reagan supporters would understand that!
wdgnas posted at 6:32 am on Mon, Jul 9, 2012.
and the chamber of commerce needs them as laborers.
chatmandu002 posted at 9:19 am on Mon, Jul 9, 2012.
Enforce all the laws all the time.
Jesus Christo de Nogales posted at 12:14 pm on Mon, Jul 9, 2012.
Obama is a true racist. Why does the US President hate the advancement of the standard of living for Mexico’s poor? Barrack Hussein Obama; how dare you deprive Mexico its young educated and motivated people? These educated and motivated illegal alien occupiers now in the US are the only hope for Mexico and you want to keep them here in the US. They could start businesses, create jobs, and improve the standard of living for the poor people of Mexico. Yet you want to be selfish and deprive Mexico of these talented youth who could make life better for all the people of Mexico. SHAME ON YOU! Have you no compassion for the poor now living in Mexico? Gustavo Arellano, Steve Gallardo, Nicky Diaz Santillan, and La Raza need to insist that all these young educated and talented Mexicans be sent back to Mexico to help improve the standard of living for the poor Mexicans. Are you with us for the good of Mexico and its people?
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