Oh I don't know, it looks like they're making progress:
Posted on 03/30/2007 12:42:19 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Two incomplete tunnels were discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in what authorities described as a failed attempt to sneak people into the U.S. illegally.
Each tunnel was about 3 feet wide, 3 feet high and 5 feet underground, said Frank Marwood, assistant special agent in charge of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. They were about 44 yards apart, near San Diego's Otay Mesa border crossing.
The passages, discovered Wednesday in a joint effort by U.S. and Mexican authorities, are among dozens found along the border in recent years, many clustered around San Diego and Nogales, Ariz.
U.S. authorities have found 58 secret tunnels along the Mexican and Canadian borders since 1990, the Department of Homeland Security said earlier this month.
Several are unfilled, including a 2,400-foot-long tunnel that connected Tijuana and San Diego. That passage, discovered last year, was lit and ventilated, equipped with a pulley system, and went as deep as 90 feet.
Homeland Security said it has set aside $2.74 million to fill in seven tunnels by mid-May.
(Excerpt) Read more at nctimes.com ...
"Buckwheat Butte" in English.
$2.74 million? Heck, me and Squantos could do it for 1/10th that price. He'll set the charges and I'll send the Feds the bill.
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Judging from the autos in the parking lot shown in that picture, that photo is vintage 1964?
I would say so, '64 was a pretty good year until Lyndon Johnson got re-elected.
Now you've done it. I'm going to giggle all day ...
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So called cooperation from Mexico has nothing to do with it. We've gotten a lot of crap from them when they are found. N.Co. times are water carriers for TJ
I live around 20 miles north from the largest and busiest border crossing in the world, San Diego and Tijuana.
We see and hear more what is going on as our local news that national in most cases won't tell.
The kidnappings, beheadings, murders, etc. are no different than Bagdad.
The new MX Gov. is putting lipstick on a pig and some are stupid enough to buy their lies.
More Metro news
Seven cross-border tunnels to be filled in
SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES
4:40 a.m. March 7, 2007
SAN DIEGO – The Department of Homeland Security will fill seven cross-border tunnels, including a nearly half-mile long tunnel that extends from San Diego to Tijuana, it was reported Wednesday.
The decision to fill the tunnels comes after it was reported in January that the tunnels had not been filled, largely because of jurisdictional issues and a lack of money.
The tunnels include two between Calexico and Mexicali, as well as the longest tunnel ever discovered between Mexico and the United States, a passage nearly a half-mile long connecting warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana.
Another tunnel, which has remained unfilled for 13 years, is known as the “Taj Mahal” because of its lighting system and reinforced concrete walls.
Because of increasing enforcement above ground, smugglers have been going underground to ferry drugs and people into the United States. In the last few years, authorities have discovered nearly 50 tunnels, most of them with a terminus in California or Arizona.
Authorities have tried to seal the larger tunnels, plugging them with concrete at the exit points and at the border, but leaving the areas in between largely intact. At least two tunnels – one with an exit in Nogales, Ariz., and the other with an exit in San Diego – were reused by smugglers who dug around the cap to access the original passage.
Our government couldn't chew gum and walk at the same time.
How can this be when we've got high-tech satellite cameras, heat sensors, Border Guards, and spy drones? Just now the US and Mexico "discovered" these tunnels?
Do the math. It defies reason.
The new MX Gov. is putting lipstick on a pig and some are stupid enough to buy their lies.
Fortunately for the Mexican govt. and our own, most people are stupid, naive, ignorant or indifferent about what goes on right at our border or of whom aren't directly affected.
Reminds me of The Great Escape. They discovered 2, but where is the third ?
Don't they know it's easier to just walk across the border? Geez...
Homeland Security said it has set aside $2.74 million to fill in seven tunnels by mid-May.
$2.74 million? Heck, me and Squantos could do it for 1/10th that price. He'll set the charges and I'll send the Feds the bill."
Must be the same purchasing department that pays $600 for a hammer and even more for a toilet seat.
I think all of us at FR could come up with something cheaper.
Sure can tell they are spending someone else's money, can't we??
I had similar thoughts when I saw that!
Boy, The Little Rascals will never die!
CA....
Gosh what is going on---- about a year ago our Ca. Senator Di-Fi came to San Diego, and with a photo op declared tunnels to be illegal....so this cannot be true...
Hell, just put a bunch of claymores in them and leave.
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