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An incomplete drug-smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and Otay Mesa was located and disabled by the U.S. Border Patrol, officials said Wednesday.
A drone has led Mexican authorities to the discovery of a suspected drug tunnel beneath the U.S.-Mexico border, officials ...
Mexican drug cartels have burrowed dozens of tunnels in the last decade, outfitted them with rail and cart systems to whisk drugs under the U.S. border and, after being discovered by authorities ...
U.S. officials report an increase in underground tunnels discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Drug traffickers and immigrant smugglers are digging elaborate passageways in attempts to evade ...
Authorities along U.S., Mexico Border Find Tunnel With Rail System, Solar-Powered Lighting Under California. Published Oct 10, 2018 at 9:57 AM EDT Updated Oct 10, 2018 at 11:44 AM EDT.
Mexican authorities say they lack the money to completely fill the tunnels, some of which are outfitted with ventilation and rail systems to whisk contraband hundreds of yards under the border.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 27 -- U.S. authorities said today they have discovered an elaborate tunnel built to smuggle drugs that runs more than 1,000 feet from Mexico under the border to a pig farm in ...
Two more suspected drug-smuggling tunnels linking warehouses in Tijuana and San Diego have been uncovered by U.S. and Mexican authorities, and a 73-year-old California woman is accused of being ...
Two Mexican nationals were arrested in Arizona this week after a third tunnel – providing a hidden passageway underneath the U.S.-Mexico border – was found in the town of Nogales this month, U ...
Drone Spots Drug Tunnel Under US-Mexico Border. Published Dec 31, 2024 at 9:09 AM EST Updated Dec 31, 2024 at 10:38 AM EST. By . Billal Rahman is an immigration reporter based in London, U.K.
One tunnel per year used to be the average, but since Sept. 11, 2001, more than 10 passageways have been discovered. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports. Support for LAist comes from ...