Border Patrol discovers tunnel being dug in Nogales

Ruu_Old

Stupid criminals. *claps*

Border Patrol agents had a clue some tunnel-digging might be going on when a young man answered a knock on the door of a home just north of the Mexican border holding a pickaxe.

Agents had noticed an unusual amount of noise late Wednesday afternoon coming from inside an abandoned home across the street from the border fence in the downtown area, spokesman Rob Daniels said. The house was just west of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection parking lot.

Agents first encountered a man standing outside the home, whom they talked to and took into custody; then they knocked on the door after continuing to hear noise from inside, Daniels said.
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"It's like the fox coming to the door of a henhouse with a chicken in its mouth," he said of the second man who opened the door with the tool in hand.

Agents took a third man into custody after discovering an unfinished tunnel about 21/2 feet in diameter and going down about 20 feet, where it dead-ended.

The tunnel was incomplete, but "all that separates it from the border is the road," Daniels said. "It could go right underground to Mexico."

The three men, 18-, 19- and 20-year-old Mexican nationals, remained in custody but had not been charged yet, Daniels said.

Over the past decade, authorities have discovered numerous drug tunnels, including several that were completed and used to transport narcotics, near downtown Nogales.

"Most tend to be connected in one way or other with drainage tunnels," Daniels said. "This one was not."

Rb

Ruu wrote:

Stupid criminals. *claps*

Lol, idiots.

Not half as good a method as you used when border jumping eh Ruu?Sleeping with Border guards got you places

Ruu_Old

By any means necessary.

Rb

Ruu wrote:

By any means necessary.

I'm sure the wifey understood...the experience even gave ya a new trick for the bedroom :eek:

You'd wonder how many people that tunnel would of helped sneak into the US though, crazy to see the lengths people will go through to get into the US/out of mexico.

Black Swan

The tunnel was going towards Mexico? Maybe they were escaping?

Our man in Havana

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

The tunnel was going towards Mexico? Maybe they were escaping?

I didn't know things were that bad in the USA!

_blank_

Aren't tunnels usually 2-way though

Exit

seansouth wrote:

Aren't tunnels usually 2-way though

No, this was a one-way tunnel.

phantom_lord

yeah, they didn't get to finish the other side yet.

InFront

I don't understand - surely there are some fields or something he can cross instead? The whole entire border must be over 1000 miles, it is hardly all patrolled.

Ruu_Old

Bush has a cunning plan though, build 700 miles of fence. Not likely that it is going ahead, what a suprise.

On September 29, 2006, by a vote of 80 to 19 the U.S. Senate confirmed H.R. 6061 authorizing, and partially funding the "possible" construction of 700 miles (1,125-kilometers) of physical fence/barriers along the border. The very broad support implies that many assurances have been made by the Administration, to the Democrats, Mexico, and the pro "Comprehensive immigration reform" minority within the GOP, that Homeland Security will proceed very cautiously. Michael Chertoff, announced that an 8 month test of the virtual fence, he favors, will precede any construction of a physical barrier. Any large scale fence construction will occur late in the Bush presidency, if at all, prior to a new administration.

On October 26, 2006, President George W. Bush signed H.R. 6061 which was voted upon and passed by the 109th Congress of the United States.[4] The signing of the bill comes right after a CNN poll shows us that most Americans "prefer the idea of more Border Patrol agents to a 700-mile (1,125-kilometer) fence."[5] There is a down payment of $1.2 billion dollars for the border fence.

Rabies

The money is needed in Iraq. A new Hanging for Dummies training school is getting constructed.

OT:
What can America really do to stop the flow of illeagal people in to the country, apart from increasing border patrols (including under ground).
No point sending them to prision, it will only cost money. Maybe the Mexican government should isssue high fines for those that are caught and brought back to Mexico.

Black Swan

Rabies wrote:

No point sending them to prision, it will only cost money.

But that's where they are sending more and more of them. Have you heard of the prisons for profit that operate in Texas (started when Bush was Governor). They are traded on the stock exchange in New York. Obviously, like any business, to increase shareholder value, you must have growth, right? But US taxpayers seem to be in the dark about where all their money is going, including growing prisons for profit in Texas (oh, also in Flordia, where brother Jeb Bush was governor until recently). Check out the American Civil Liberties Union website for more detailed information about detainees in Texas. Many are children.

Rabies

Didn't know that. Only in America.

scojones

I heard he's going to build a moat around America.

cold_filter

yeah i seen this on the news a couple of weeks ago, some of the tunnels have electric lights and ventilation systems in them, mad stuff

Agamemnon

Some of the things Mexicans do to get into the US are hilarious. My favourite one is the guy who disguised himself as a car seat.

godtabh

agamemnon wrote:

Some of the things Mexicans do to get into the US are hilarious. My favourite one is the guy who disguised himself as a car seat.

How did he think he was gona get away with that? He probably did as a distraction so hundreds of his mates could cross the border while the guards were laughing at him!