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U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel
#13429542 - 11/03/10 03:31 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel November 3, 2010 - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. border police have found a sophisticated smuggler's tunnel the length of six football fields linking Southern California with Mexico and believed to have been used by drug traffickers, authorities said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said the tunnel linked warehouses in Otay Mesa, California, and Tijuana, Mexico. It measured 1,800 feet and was equipped with a rail system, lighting and ventilation.
Agents also recovered more than 20 tons of marijuana during overnight searches of the tunnel, the border patrol said in a news release.
Mexican drug cartels have bored scores of tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years to beat ramped-up security at ports of entry and the rugged spaces in between. Nearly all of them linked cities on either side of Mexico's border with California and Arizona.
In early 2006, agents discovered a tunnel measuring 2,400 feet running under the same stretch of border to Otay Mesa from Tijuana. It remains the longest such tunnel discovered to date.
Tijuana is the principal gateway for drugs entering California from Mexico. Last month authorities there seized more than 100 tons of marijuana valued at more than $340 million in Mexico's biggest pot haul to date.
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: veggie]
#13429579 - 11/03/10 03:36 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: veggie]
#13429594 - 11/03/10 03:38 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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For every tunnel they find, I'll bet there are 20 they don't find.
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: illuz1oN]
#13429595 - 11/03/10 03:38 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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its not as big as the 20 tunnels they didnt find...
edit- holy shit talk about reading my mind...
Edited by Pilz (11/03/10 03:38 PM)
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: Pilz]
#13429809 - 11/03/10 04:21 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I love these tunnels.
few years back they found one from Alberta I think, crossing underground into the US. It was big enough to drive a golf cart back and forth, lol.
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: Pilz]
#13429895 - 11/03/10 04:40 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well I do know that in a year or two, they are getting ready to come out with a more sophisticated x-ray that can detect these tunnels from the AC130 Gunship and also with satellite's. I read it in popular mechanics magazine so I'm not sure if it will happen. It sounds like it will though, why not spend more of our money to fight the war on drugs.
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: gamer4life]
#13430379 - 11/03/10 06:09 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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20 tons in US currency is a pretty large number in Mexico.. That is a lot of US money doing very bad things.
That money would have certainly taken many lives. In fact, just because they lost that money, lives will be lost.
anti-prop 19 sayers: "They say Prop. 19 will curb the Cartels, not as much as you've been led to think".
Everyone who voted no, just murdered South American immigrant families. Yup, they're real slaves, who are really executed.
You voted for real crime.
Everyone who voted yes, whether knowingly or not tried to save peoples families. Sure, there is other crime, but for fucking why, would you disregard peace? Because it's not quite peaceful enough? Right lol?
Honestly, I'd like to take every tool that forfeited our freedom, and force each and every single one to lay in their own bed for 24 hours with 1 rotting corpse that results from their choice. THEN SEE HOW MUCH SENSE THE ANTI-GROUPS MAKE TO YOU. Betcha change your minds.
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: al32us]
#13430407 - 11/03/10 06:15 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Maybe that sounds a little extreme. But I'm just so fed up with TOOLS being brainwashed into ruining what our country is supposed to stand for.
We're totally supposed to be stronger than this, we're supposed to make other nations go, "why are they making those moves?" or "Wow they move quickly".
The U.S. compared to other countries, rose in power SO SO SO rapidly because of those qualities.
Big business government types aren't interested in our place in the world, just their own place in our country.
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: al32us]
#13431095 - 11/03/10 08:32 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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As you all say it might not be as big as the 20 they dont find, but how about the thousands of planes they dont find, plus the ships they dont catch at the ports.
Its as simple as, the more they catch the more the price drives up, the harder the attempts to bring drugs over. To make more $$$
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: myl3sss]
#13432622 - 11/04/10 05:07 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Just like in the show weeds
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^ I read a statistic that the US only intercepts ONE PERCENT of all drug traffic. That means every time the sheriff shows of a table of confiscated cannabis, or a turkey bag full of ecstasy, there are 99 more just like it on the street.
The goal of the DEA isn't to eliminate all drugs; they know it is impossible. What they are trying to do is drive up the price so drugs become unaffordable. What they are actually doing is making sure violent cartels make a shit load of money and create problems.
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Re: U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel [Re: Le_Canard]
#13433426 - 11/04/10 11:13 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Green_T said: ^ I read a statistic that the US only intercepts ONE PERCENT of all drug traffic. That means every time the sheriff shows of a table of confiscated cannabis, or a turkey bag full of ecstasy, there are 99 more just like it on the street.
The goal of the DEA isn't to eliminate all drugs; they know it is impossible. What they are trying to do is drive up the price so drugs become unaffordable. What they are actually doing is making sure violent cartels make a shit load of money and create problems.
Do you have the link for this statistic? I could use it.
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ToiletDuk said: For every tunnel they find, I'll bet there are 20 they don't find.
Just like cockroaches, and probably more tunnels than that even.
I think these tunnels are bullshit personally. The people who use them are most likely violent criminals whom I don't want around myself or my family. I wonder why the DEA or whoever didn't wait for a sting, and rather just announced to the world that they found it... I am sick at the failure of the DEA... they need to find a better way to spend the money we give them.
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