suspended in order to save lives.
https //www cnn
com/2017/01/18/world/joaqun-el-
chapo-guzmn-fast-facts/index
html
Other:
2021/09/22 Alleged Mexican drug
cartel boss charged in California.
By AP on Yahoo
https://news.yahoo.com/alleged-
mexican-drug-cartel-boss-
000302890.html
Sinaloa cartel-top lieutenant-
Sergio Valenzuela-charged
2019/07/18 El Chapo disappeared
two days now is at the Supermax
[in Colorado]
https //www
.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/nyregion/
el-chapo-has-disappeared-is-he-
at-the-supermax.html
2019/07/21 El Chapo is Colorado’s
newest transplant
https //www
westword.com/news/el-chapo-is-
colorados-newest-transplant-but-
he-wont-like-his-
accommodations-11417724
8/world/joaqun-el-chapo-guzmn-
fast-facts/index html
Excerpt: Here's a look at the life of
Joaquín Guzmán, otherwise
known as "El Chapo," a Mexican
drug lord who has repeatedly
broken out of prison. He was
recaptured in January 2016 and
later extradited to the United
States to stand trial on federal
charges…
The nickname, "El Chapo," means
"Shorty." Guzmán stands 5'6" tall.
Former leader of the Sinaloa
Cartel, which the US Justice
Department describes as "one of
the world's most prolific, violent
and powerful drug cartels,"
moving billions upon billions of
dollars in marijuana, cocaine,
heroin and methamphetamine…
Was able to continue running the
Sinaloa Cartel in prison through
bribes. Is known for using
intricate tunnel systems for both
evading authorities and moving
the massive quantities of drugs
that made the Sinaloa Cartel so
powerful…
July 17, 2019 - Guzmán is
sentenced to life in prison plus 30
years. He is also ordered to pay
$12.6 billion in forfeiture.
Restitution will be determined
later.
October 17, 2019 - Mexican security
forces temporarily detain Guzman
Lopez during a shootout with
suspected cartel members in
Sinaloa state. Guzman Lopez is
released and the operation
suspended in order to save lives.
https //www cnn
com/2017/01/18/world/joaqun-el-
chapo-guzmn-fast-facts/index
html
Other:
2021/09/22 Alleged Mexican drug
cartel boss charged in California.
By AP on Yahoo
https://news.yahoo.com/alleged-
mexican-drug-cartel-boss-
000302890.html
Sinaloa cartel-top lieutenant-
Sergio Valenzuela-charged
2019/07/18 El Chapo disappeared
two days now is at the Supermax
[in Colorado]
https //www
.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/nyregion/
el-chapo-has-disappeared-is-he-
at-the-supermax.html
2019/07/21 El Chapo is Colorado’s
newest transplant
https //www
westword.com/news/el-chapo-is-
colorados-newest-transplant-but-
he-wont-like-his-
accommodations-11417724
Tunnels - Smuggling: Brief and More Detailed Info (BORDERS-8a)
https //www usatoday com/border-wall/story/drug-trafficking-
smuggling-cartels-tunnels/559814001/#!
Excerpt: After the government built fences in San Diego, drug
smugglers turned to the ocean, underground tunnels and, most
commonly, the ports of entry. Last year more than 90 percent of the
drug seizures happened in the port of entry, where millions of cars drive
into San Diego from Mexico every year.
…Since 2001, the San Diego Sector’s Tunnel Task Force has found more
than 60 smuggling tunnels in the county. “With the advent of the
infrastructure between the ports of entry, one of the unintended
consequences were the huge narcotics tunnels that were created that
went over 100 feet deep and ran seven or eight football fields in length,”
says Unzueta.
Most of those tunnels are in Otay Mesa, a massive warehouse district
just north of a commercial truck port of entry.
https //www usatoday com/border-wall/story/drug-trafficking-
smuggling-cartels-tunnels/559814001/#!
SOME MORE DETAIL
2023 Smuggling Tunnels
Legislation for 2023 Sealing Border Tunnels
2022/12/23
https//pfluger house gov/news/documentsingle aspx?DocumentID=638
H.R. 4209, the DHS Illicit Cross-Border Tunnel Defense Act, was included in
the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023 and signed into law on Friday.
NBC San Diego
https //www nbcsandiego com/news/local/possible-drug-tunnel-leading-to-
us-found-in-tijuana-police/3225247/
[PF Note 2023/1/24: Microsoft blocked her video-maybe something is off-use
discretion and caution, have not seen video at this point and so far cannot
find other articles/news media on subject]
https //rumble com/v21yv5w-a-massive-smuggling-tunnel-was-just-
discovered-at-the-southern-border html
2023/01/22 CEO and Founder of Women Fighting For America, Christie
Hutcherson, says that a MASSIVE smuggling tunnel was just discovered at the
US/Mexico border. #BidenBorderCrisis #BorderInvasion
Watch LIVE bit.ly/plutolive;
Watch more #DrGina #PrimeTime here:
https /americasvoicenews/video/2i0U6qCvhIS9Phh
2022
Tijuana-San Diego Warehouse
News Nation Now
2022/05/17 Massive Drug Tunnel Found in California. J.J. Bullock, Robert
Sherman
https //www newsnationnow com/us-news/immigration/border-
coverage/drug-smuggling-tunnel-discovered-by-
authorities/#:~:text=The%20opening%20of%20a%20cross-
An 1,800-foot tunnel connecting Tijuana, Mexico, with a warehouse near San
Diego, California has been discovered by authorities, leading to the seizure of
drugs and the arrest of suspected smugglers.
2021
Mexicali-El Centro Border Patrol Area
Ice dot gov
2021/08/21 Sophisticated subterranean tunnel discovered near US-Mexico
Border
https //www ice gov/news/releases/sophisticated-subterranean-tunnel-
discovered-near-us-mexico-border
2020
Kept Working Despite Early Covid-19 Period
“I hope this sends a clear message that despite the ongoing public
health crisis, HSI and our law enforcement partners will remain resilient and
continue to pursue criminal organizations responsible for the cross-border
smuggling of narcotics into the United States.”
--Cardell T. Morant, Acting Special Agent in Charge of HSI
San Diego - March 2020 case
Tijuana to San Diego Otay Mesa Warehouse
2020/03/19 Tijuana to San Diego-Otay Mesa-warehouse in
commercial complex/ more than 2000 feet.
Agents seized approximately 1,300 pounds of cocaine,
86 pounds of methamphetamine, 17 pounds of heroin,
3,000 pounds of marijuana and more than two pounds of
fentanyl from the tunnel. The large seizure of mixed drugs
represents the first time in San Diego’s history where five
different types of drugs were found inside a tunnel. The total
street value of the drugs seized from the tunnel is estimated
at $29.6 million.
2020/02 Arizona border - Nogales, Mexico to Nogales, Arizona; Grand
Avenue drainage system, Dennis DeConcini port of entry. An
incomplete smuggling tunnel was discovered by authorities at the
Arizona-Mexico border — the 126th underground pathway found by
border agents in that area since 1990; S Customs and Border
Protection agents, along with Mexican authorities, located the tunnel
that originated at a drainage facility in Nogales, Mexico, and extended
30 feet into Nogales, Arizona, CBP said in a press release. Described by
authorities as a “rudimentary” tunnel, the hand-dug pathway had no
shoring, ventilation or lighting. Its depth was about 20-feet.
(NY Post 2020/02/27 and Tucson Sentinel-2020/02/27in Articles by Year
2019
2019 August, Tijuana to San Diego/4309 ft articles start coming out in
2020/January. Stretching more than three-quarters of a mile from an
industrial site in Tijuana, Mexico, to the San Diego area.4309 feet.The tunnel
featured an extensive rail cart system, forced air ventilation, high voltage
electrical cables and panels, an elevator at the tunnel entrance and a
drainage system. While there were no arrests, no drugs found at the site and
no confirmed exit point in the U.S., the length — more than 14 football fields
— stunned authorities.
2015
2015 Tijuana to San Diego-Chicago & Midwest/2600 ft - Tijuana Warehouse to
San Diego Warehouse. Fed shut down cartel supertunnel, stretched about
2,600 feet, which would make it one of the longest ever built under the U.S.-
Mexico border.San Diego area with pipelines to Chicago and Midwest. Feds
shut down cartel supertunnel that fed into Chicago
2015 between Calexico and Mexicali. Underwater Drug Smuggling Tunnel
American Canal
2012
2012 Nogales Arizona. Tunnel had electricity and ventilation.
2011
2011 November Southern California 550 metre tunnel 32 tons of marijuana
both sides of the border.
That tunnel was equipped with electric railcars, lighting and ventilation while
wooden planks lined the floor.
2010
2010/11/26 - Tijuana to San Diego (Otay Mesa).
2010/11 Tijuana to San Diego (Otay Mesa). Both of these tunnels likely linked
to Sinaloa cartel. 2600 foot tunnel.
2006/01/25 - Tijuana Airport area to San Diego warehouse. US - Mexico border;
V&F distributors LLC. Tijuana’s Arellano-Felix Drug Syndicate likely. 2400 foot
long tunnel
LIST OVERVIEWS - Tunnel Smuggling Lists at points in time (to that date
then)
2011 LIST/OVERVIEW Insight Crime gives a good rendering of tunnels found
in San Diego and Nogales to date and tunnel discovery technology up to that
point
2013 LIST/OVERVIEW San Diego Tribune newspaper puts out a list of tunnels
to date (Articles by Year)
TUNNEL DETECTION TECHNOLOGY
2018
National Defense Magazine
2018/01/02 Going Underground: The U.S. Government’s Hunt for Enemy
Tunnels. By Jon Harper
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2018/1/2/going-
underground-the-us-governments-hunt-for-enemy-tunnels
2014
National Post
2014/01/15 How Mexico drug tunnels are built and a closer look at the new
border agency robots that will patrol t hem. By AP
https //nationalpost com/news/how-mexico-drug-tunnels-are-built-and-a-
closer-look-at-the-new-border-agency-robots-that-will-patrol-them
Excerpt: The job of searching these networks can be dangerous, so the U.S.
Border Patrol is unveiling its latest technology in the underground war — a
wireless, camera-equipped robot that can do the job in a fraction of the time.
The agency is using the devices to keep agents out of harm’s way as many
tunnels can be poorly built and possibly collapse and lack proper ventilation.
The 5.4-kilogram robots also let agents navigate an underground labyrinth in
a fraction of the time it would take an agent to explore the tunnel. And the
devices can be used in tunnels and pipes where agents can’t fit.
The tunnel robots have been in use by Border Patrol for several years. But the
agency recently paid $109,000 for the three new cameras with money from
an asset forfeiture fund, which comes from the seizure of property in criminal
cases, including drug cases involving cartel members, the Border Patrol
said…HOW ARE TUNNELS EXPLORED AND INVESTIGATED ONCE THEY’RE
LOCATED?
So-called tunnel robots have been in use by Border Patrol for several years.
They can safely navigate through corrugated pipes, tunnels, and drainage
systems while an agent controls the device from the surface, seeing what the
robot sees on a handheld screen. The robots are used, in part, as a safety
measure to keep agents out of harm’s way as many tunnels can be poorly
built and possibly collapse and lack proper ventilation.
They also can navigate an underground labyrinth in a fraction of the time it
would take an agent to explore the tunnel. Some of the newer robots, which
weigh about 5.5 kilograms and can navigate through passageways that are
only several feet wide, are being deployed this year across southern Arizona
and California.
https //nationalpost com/news/how-mexico-drug-tunnels-are-built-and-a-
closer-look-at-the-new-border-agency-robots-that-will-patrol-them
2011
Insight Crime
2011/11/16 Tunnel Detection Technology at Mexico Border: Worth
the Effort?
ANALYSISWritten by Elyssa Pachico
https //www insightcrime org/news/analysis/tunnel-detection-
technology-at-mexico-border-worth-the-effort/
Excerpt: One project experiments with ground sensors that use
seismic waves to detect movement underground, as well as
robots that map the terrain using infrared and other
technologies. There a various technologies the U.S. can use to
detect tunnels, but all have their limitations. Ground penetrating
radar does a poor job at detecting anything before 40 feet. This
does little good considering that one tunnel discovered between
San Diego and Tijuana traveled at a depth of almost 100 feet
below the surface. Ground radar readings are also affected by
ground conditions, and give poor results in urban settings or in
damp, clay-rich soils. Other research involves microgravity — the
measurement of minute changes in Earth’s gravitational field
caused by cavities in the ground. However, the equipment is
costly and could give many false alarms. Other technologies
using cosmic rays and electrodes have proven to be as equally
limited. Tunnels vary greatly in dimension and depth, which also
complicates detection through these high-tech methods. The
Department of Defense is reportedly most focused on developing
seismic and infrared technology to detect tunnels, although the
Department of Homeland Security has observed that such
research is slow and “labor intensive.” Israel has reportedly
developed another method, using fiber optic cables, to track the
tunnels excavated in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. But installing
such a system on a mass scale would be expensive and
vulnerable to tampering.
https //www insightcrime org/news/analysis/tunnel-detection-
technology-at-mexico-border-worth-the-effort/
2010
Mitre dot org
2010/09 UNDERGROUND RADAR SYSTEMS: FIGHTING TUNNELS WITH
TUNNELS
To aid the U.S. Border Patrol in the time-consuming and difficult task of
locating smuggling tunnels, MITRE has designed a prototype system to boost
the capability of ground-penetrating radar.
https //www mitre org/publications/project-stories/underground-radar-
systems-fighting-tunnels-with-tunnels
Excerpt: Last summer, while pursuing a tip from an alert citizen, the border
patrol in Nogales surprised a smuggler sawing a hole from beneath the floor
of an empty building. Under the building the agents found a tunnel that
stretched 83 feet to its origin in Mexico. The tunnel, a sophisticated
construction complete with ventilation and lighting, was the largest of the
more than 60 tunnels the border patrol had uncovered in Nogales. Along the
entire Mexican border, agents have uncovered more than 100 smuggling
tunnels. But finding each of these tunnels is time-consuming and difficult.
To provide the border patrol with a reliable technological tool, MITRE
designed a prototype system to boost the ability of ground-penetrating radar
to spot tunnels. By running radar sensors through horizontal boreholes
burrowed underground, border agents could get a much clearer view of the
clandestine activity beneath their feet. Underground Assistance: Each of the
smuggling tunnels near Nogales was uncovered through the border patrol's
diligent intelligence gathering. While there is no replacing old-fashioned
detective work, technology to reliably detect underground tunnels can only
help make border agents' tough job easier. But the technology tested so far
has not proved up to the task. For example, other sensors, such as current
seismic sensors, have problems picking up signals in the midst of a noisy
urban environment whereas the technology developed at MITRE does equally
well in urban and isolated rural environments. For some time, the Border
Patrol has relied on ground-penetrating radar sensors placed on the surface
of the border. But smugglers have taken advantage of the limited ability of
the radar to peer through the surface clay and sand composition of the
terrain along the majority of the border by burrowing their tunnels deep
enough underground—up to 90 feet—to escape detection. Underground
sensors, however, have not proven the better alternative.
https //www mitre org/publications/project-stories/underground-radar-
systems-fighting-tunnels-with-tunnels
ARTICLES BY YEAR Note: several of these articles came from the source list
in Wikipedia, excerpted down at bottom of this by-year list
2021
August
KKTV
2021/08/10 Sophisticated’ underground tunnel discovered near US-
Mexico border
https://www.kktv.com/2021/08/10/sophisticated-underground-tunnel-
discovered-near-us-mexico-border…
CALEXICO, Calif. (KKTV) - Authorities discovered an underground tunnel
that investigators believe drug traffickers were planning to use near the
U.S.-Mexico border. In early August, the U.S. immigration and Customs
Enforcement shared details on the discovery with the public. The 183-
foot long subterranean tunnel was found in Mexicali, just south of the
international border. The sophisticated tunnel ran just 3 feet north of
the border wall but didn’t have an exit on the U.S. side of the border.
10 News
2021/08/09 ICE: Drug tunnel discovered in Mexicali, near US-Mexico
border. Jermaine Ong
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/ice-drug-tunnel-discovered-
in-mexicali-near-us-mexico-border
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- A tunnel used by a drug trafficking organization
was discovered inside a home near the U.S.-Mexico border last week,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.
July
Business Insider
2021/07/26 The 'US-Mexico border is literally riddled with tunnels'
https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/the-us-mexico-border-is-
literally-riddled-with-tunnels/slidelist/53986014.cms#slideid=53986045
Excerpt: Narco tunnels have proliferated along the US-Mexico border,
but it was the Sinaloa cartel that pioneered this method of
subterranean smuggling, first in its area of influence along the Arizona
border, expanding all along the frontier as the cartel grew in
power…The Sinaloa cartel's tunneling activity is heavily concentrated in
the Tijuana area. Many of them have been found to stretch from Garita
de Otay, an industrial area in the northern part of the city, to Otay Mesa,
a neighborhood in San Diego that "consists of highways, strip malls,
and a few hundred warehouses clustered near the border."…The
industrial activity and infrastructure on both sides of the border in the
Tijuana-San Diego area has been a boon to smugglers…ndustrial
activity, as well as the flow of people and cargo between Tijuana and
San Diego, provides excellent cover for illegal activity. "The bottom line
is, you can probably shoot a bullet in the air and it’ll land on a
warehouse that’s doing something illegal in this area," Tim Durst, then
the supervisor of the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, told GQ in 2014…One
of the Sinaloa cartel's first tunneling gurus was Felipe de Jesus Corona-
Verbera, who graduated from architecture school at the University of
Guadalajara in 1980. Corona, who was close with Guzmán, was the
driving force behind the cartel's first major tunnel, which connected
Agua Prieta in Mexico with Douglas, Arizona…The Sinaloa cartel later
had another tunnel mastermind: Jose Sanchez-Villalobos…Villalobos
was an adept manager who coordinated multiple tunnel projects while
keeping a low profile. “Nothing I’ve ever seen criminally has worked as
efficiently as it did when he was the boss,” an agent told The New
Yorker…
Daily Mail
2021/07/30 El Chapo’s drug tunnel architect is jailed for 10 years for
creating underground passageways fitted with rail tracks, hydraulic
steel doors and elevators to shuttle narcotics from Mexico to California.
. By Adry Torres.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9844173/San-Diego-court-
sentences-El-Chapos-drug-tunnel-architect-10-years-priso
Concho Valley Home Page dot com
2021/07/29 Rep. Pfluger’s bill to seal tunnels between U.S. and
Mexico advanced by House Committee on Homeland Security. By
Senora Scott
https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/local-news/rep-
pflugers-bill-to-seal-tunnels-between-u-s-and-mexico-advanced-
by-house-committee-on-homeland-security/
May
CBS8 dot com
2021/05/07 Drug tunnel discovered in Tijuana. Mexican Federal
Police described the tunnel as "sophisticated."
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/special-reports/at-the-
border/drug-tunnel-discovered-in-tijuana/509-0f703497-a13e-
4704-82b7-56d1afdf1ccc
2020
AP News
2020/03/31 "US finds major cross-border tunnel used to smuggle
drugs".
https //en wikipedia
org/wiki/Smuggling_tunnel#:~:text=As%20of%20September%203
0%2C%202015,US%20Border%20Patrol%20task%20force.
AP News
2020/01/29 January
Authorities find longest Southwest border smuggling tunnel By
ELLIOT SPAGAT
https://apnews.com/21b592aa0a812225dad0e44f2538de54
The tunnel exposes limitations of President Donald Trump’s
border wall, which stretches several feet underground in the area
and is considered effective against small, crudely built tunnels
often called “gopher holes.” The one announced Wednesday was
found about 70 feet (21 meters) underground, well below the wall.
*Following the discovery in August, Mexican law enforcement
identified the entrance and U.S. investigators mapped the tunnel
that extends a total of 4,309 feet. (1,313 meters). The next longest
tunnel in the U.S. was discovered in San Diego in 2014. It was
2,966 feet (904 meters) long.
DEA
2020/03/31 San Diego Tunnel Task Force uncovers sophisticated
cross-border drug tunnel under the U.S./Mexico border. (Note:
San Diego John W. Callery, Special Agent in Charge)
Federal agents seize 4,400 pounds of illicit drugs from the
tunnel’s exit in the U.S.
https //www dea gov/press-releases/2020/03/31/san-diego-tunnel-
task-force-uncovers-sophisticated-cross-border-drug
Excerpt: SAN DIEGO – Federal agents on the San Diego Tunnel
Task Force uncovered a sophisticated drug smuggling tunnel on
Thursday, March 19, which extends under the United States-
Mexico border to a warehouse in a commercial complex in the
Otay Mesa area of San Diego. The discovery of the tunnel
resulted from an ongoing investigation by members on the San
Diego Tunnel Task Force, which include Homeland Security
Investigations, U.S. Border Patrol, the Drug Enforcement
Administration and the United States Attorney’s Office.
https //www dea gov/press-releases/2020/03/31/san-diego-tunnel-
task-force-uncovers-sophisticated-cross-border-drug
Fox News
2020/09/24 From bomb-affixed drones to narco tanks and
ventilated tunnels: How well-equipped are the Mexican cartels?
By Hollie McKay
Arsenals are expanding and advancing as profits increase,
experts warn
https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-cartels-narco-tanks-
drones-bombs
Guardian
4309 ft tunnel - Below are 2020 articles from an August 2019*
tunnel discovery
2020/01/29
Tunnel discovered on US-Mexico border is longest ever ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/29/drug..
Independent
4309 ft tunnel - Below are 2020 articles from an August 2019*
tunnel discovery
2020/01/30 Authorities have not named any suspects but the
area where the tunnel began has been a stronghold of Mexico’s
Sinaloa cartel, whose longtim leder Joaquin El
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/...
New York Post
2020/02/27 Smuggling Tunnel dug by hand discovered at US
Mexico border. By Kenneth Garger
https //nypost com/2020/02/27/smuggling-tunnel-dug-by-hand-
discovered-at-us-mexico-border/
Tucson Sentinel
2020/02/27 New cross-border smuggling tunnel found in
Nogales, first of 2020. By Paul Ingram.
http //www tucsonsentinel
com/local/report/022720_nogales_tunnel/new-cross-border-
smuggling-tunnel-found-nogales-first-2020/
2018
Daily Mail
Feds find a tunnel leading from the kitchen of an old KFC in
Arizona to a trap door in a bedroom in Mexico which smugglers
pulled bags of drugs along using a rope
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6091365/Feds-drug-
tunnel-leading-kitchen-old-KFC-Arizona-Mexico.html
Fox News
2018/01/30 Border Patrol agents find tunnel in El Paso that connects city to
storied past
https //www foxnews com/us/border-patrol-agents-find-tunnel-in-el-paso-
that-connects-city-to-storied-past
Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas found a 75-foot tunnel along the U.S.
bank of the Rio Grande river – and one former Border Patrol chief believes its
origins could go back 100 years.
2016
Cross-Border Tunnels and Border Tunnel Prevention: Fiscal Year 2015 Report
to Congress (Report). United States Department of Homeland Security U.S.
Customs and Border Protection. 2016. p. 6. Retrieved 22 December 2018. As of
September 30, 2015, 183 illicit cross-border tunnels have been discovered in
the United States since Fiscal Year 1990
2015
ABC7 I Team Investigation By Chuck Goudie
2015/10/23 Fed shut down cartel supertunnel San Diego area with pipelines
to Chicago and Midwest. Feds shut down cartel supertunnel that fed into
Chicago
Excerpt: The top drug enforcement agent in Chicago keeps an eye on
Mexico's drug cartels, primarily the Sinaloa cartel owned and operated by
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. It is no coincidence that El Chapo escaped a
maximum security prison by tunnel last summer as his operatives are skilled
tunnel engineers and builders. The cross-border tunnel discovered by U.S.
authorities on Wednesday is, they say, one of the longest and most elaborate
underground passageways they have ever seen. Equipped with a lighting and
ventilation system, the drug smuggling subway…According to U.S. authorities
the passageway stretched about 2,600 feet, which would make it one of the
longest ever built under the U.S.-Mexico border.
https://abc7chicago.com/i-team-sinaloa-cartel-drug-smuggling-
tunnel/1048395/
2014
AP-Associated Press
Billeaud (14 January 2014). "How tunnels are built, used along U.S.-Mexico
border". KPBS. Nogales, Arizona. Associated Press. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
Arizona Central (AZ Central dot com)
2014/11/12 "Largest-ever drug tunnel in Nogales found". azcentral.com.
Retrieved 12 November 2014
2014
National Post
2014/01/15 How Mexico drug tunnels are built and a closer look at the new
border agency robots that will patrol t hem. By AP
https //nationalpost com/news/how-mexico-drug-tunnels-are-built-and-a-
closer-look-at-the-new-border-agency-robots-that-will-patrol-them
2013
San Diego Tribune
2013/10/31 Since 1990, law enforcement officials have discovered more than
140 tunnels underneath the U.S. border.
By U-T SAN DIEGO
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/sdut-
border-tunnels-2013oct31-htmlstory.html
International Journal of Criminology and Sociology. 2.
2013
Lichtenwald, Terrance G.; Perri, Frank S. (2013). "Terrorist Use of Smuggling
Tunnels".
2012
AP - Associated Press
2012/12/28 "Mexican Authorities Find Smuggling Tunnel Equipped With
Electricity Near Border". KILT (AM). Associated
Global Post
2012/07/10 "Mexico's army finds drug tunnel to Arizona".
2011
Insight Crime
2011/11/16 Tunnel Detection Technology at Mexico Border: Worth the Effort?
ANALYSISWritten by Elyssa Pachico
https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/tunnel-detection-technology-at-
mexico-border-worth-the-effort/
2010
BBC
2010/11/26 "Second Mexico-US drug tunnel found in Tijuana".
2011
Inside Homeland Security
2011 Spring 9(1)
Lichtenwald, Terrance G.; Perri, Frank S. "Smuggling Tunnels:The Need for a
Transnational Analysis".
Wikipedia
https //en wikipedia
org/wiki/Smuggling_tunnel#:~:text=As%20of%20September%203
0%2C%202015,US%20Border%20Patrol%20task%20force.
Excerpt: As of September 30, 2015, 183 illicit cross-border tunnels
have been discovered in the United States since Fiscal Year
1990.[7]
On January 25, 2006, a tunnel was found on the US-Mexico border
by a joint US Drug Enforcement Administration, US Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, and US Border Patrol task force. The
2,400-foot (730 m) long tunnel runs from a warehouse near the
Tijuana airport to a warehouse in San Diego. When discovered, it
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Articles by Yr
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Brief List of Smuggling Tunnels
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Start Here
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A Little More Detail
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List Overview
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SMUGGLING TUNNELS BRIEF
Brief Summary of Smuggling Tunnels
to USA
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2023 Tijuana-San Diego possible
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2022 Tijuana-San Diego Warehouse
1800 ft
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2021 Mexicali-El Centro Border
Patrol Area
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2020 Tijuana to San Diego Otay
Mesa Warehouse 2000 ft
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Arizona border - Nogales, Mexico to
Nogales, Arizona; incomplete
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2019 Tijuana to San Diego/4309 ft
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2015 Tijuana to San Diego-Chicago
& Midwest/2600 ft
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2015 Calexico and Mexicali All Amer.
Canal
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2012 Nogales Arizona. Tunnel had
electricity and ventilation.
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2011 November Southern California
550 metre tunnel
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2010 Two tunnels.
START HERE
USA Today
Drug smuggling, and the endless
battle to stop it. Gustavo Solis
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Resources and Input
Policing, Borders, Drugs, Cartels
and System Corruption
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