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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2007 
Tunnel Found Under Mexico Border Crossing Gate
 Reuters
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| | A view of the entrance to a recently constructed tunnel at a home in Nogales, Arizona, June 28, 2007. The United States has found a half-built smuggling tunnel running under a border crossing checkpoint between Mexico and Arizona, the second discovery of a tunnel in less than a week, U.S. border officials said on Tuesday. (Reuters/U.S. Immigration and Customs) |
Monterrey, Mexico - The United States has found a half-built smuggling tunnel running under a border crossing checkpoint between Mexico and Arizona, the second discovery of a tunnel in less than a week, U.S. border officials said on Tuesday.
Border agents noticed a small hole in one of the gate's vehicle lanes on the U.S. side leading out of downtown Nogales into the Mexican sister city of the same name on Sunday. They found a crudely built opening to the 30-foot-long (9-meter-long) tunnel.
Officials believe this is the first tunnel dug directly underneath a legal crossing gate along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"If they can't get through us, it seems they are going to try to go under us," said a U.S. border customs spokesman.
Mexican police found tools used to dig the tunnel, which lacked lighting or support bracing. It was not clear if it was built for smuggling drugs or people.
Mexico and the United States discovered a smuggling tunnel linking the Mexican border town of San Luis Colorado with Arizona last week.
More than 40 tunnels connecting towns in Mexico and the United States have been discovered by police since the September 11, 2001, attacks. |
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