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Drug and people-trafficking tunnel is found

by Jessica Tucker | December 4, 2009 at 08:06 pm

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Another underground, well actually under border, tunnel has been discovered under a building in Tijuana, Mexico. The incomplete, elaborate walkway measuring a completed length of almost 1000 feet was just another attempt made by groups of individuals to illegally enter the US for a multitude of reasons. The Times Online reported the following information.

The incomplete tunnel, equipped with a lift, ventilation and lighting, was discovered yesterday after a tip-off from security agents. It begins in a warehouse district in Tijuana, near the busy Otay Mesa port of entry into San Diego and extends nearly 1,000ft, including 860ft into US territory. It even boasts a lift to move materials and workers to depths reaching 100ft. The builders had not yet got around to completing the exit on the US side.

Whether the purpose of this tunnel and the rest discovered so far was for drug trafficking or illegal immigration, either way for some reason these people need to enter the country illegally. To think of what may have been accomplished had they succeeded and broken through onto US soil. Really though, this is nothing new. Poeple have been breaking through borders and climbing walls since those walls were erected. It is like a "Do Not Enter" sign on a door, it is almost human nature to wonder what on the other side.

The latest find comes a month after Mexican soldiers discovered another incomplete 400ft tunnel in Tijuana leading from a house west of the airport. It had electricity, ventilation system and walls shored up with wood.