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The Tijuana Tango: How Cartels Use Tunnels To Move Product From Mexico To America (6/9/24)

9 giu 2024 · 13 min. 16 sec.
The Tijuana Tango:  How Cartels Use Tunnels To Move Product From Mexico To America (6/9/24)
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The cartels in Tijuana, Mexico, employ drug tunnels as a clandestine means to transport illicit narcotics, primarily marijuana and cocaine, across the border into the United States. Here's a summary...

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The cartels in Tijuana, Mexico, employ drug tunnels as a clandestine means to transport illicit narcotics, primarily marijuana and cocaine, across the border into the United States. Here's a summary of how they utilize these tunnels:Construction and Operation:
  1. Secret Construction: Cartels invest significant resources in digging underground tunnels, often starting from buildings or properties on the Mexican side of the border, such as warehouses or residential homes.
  2. Sophisticated Engineering: The construction of these tunnels requires sophisticated engineering techniques, including the use of heavy machinery such as hydraulic lifts and pneumatic tools to excavate the soil and reinforce the tunnel walls.
  3. Length and Depth: These tunnels can vary in length, ranging from a few hundred feet to several thousand feet, and are typically dug deep underground to evade detection.
  4. Hidden Entrances and Exits: Cartels conceal the entrances and exits of these tunnels within buildings, hidden compartments, or camouflaged structures to avoid detection by law enforcement.
  5. 24/7 Operation: Once operational, the tunnels facilitate a continuous flow of drugs, with traffickers working around the clock to move large quantities of narcotics across the border undetected.
Challenges and Risks:
  1. Detection Efforts: Law enforcement agencies on both sides of the border employ various detection methods, including ground-penetrating radar, infrared technology, and canine units, to locate and dismantle these tunnels.
  2. Structural Integrity: Due to the clandestine nature of their construction, drug tunnels pose significant safety risks, including collapses and structural instability, endangering both traffickers and law enforcement personnel.
  3. Interception: While some tunnels successfully evade detection for extended periods, others are intercepted by authorities, leading to the seizure of drugs and arrests of individuals involved in their operation.
  4. Competition and Conflict: Cartels compete for control over lucrative smuggling routes, leading to violence and turf wars, as rival groups seek to establish supremacy and protect their interests.
The authorities in San Diego uncovered an elaborate smugglers tunnel that led from a warehouse in San Diego to Tijuana. Not only was the tunnel snuffed out, the police arrested six people and hundreds of pounds of drugs were also seized. The feds were able to find this one, but how many more are there running directly under the most fortified part of the border wall?

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source:

https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/drug-smuggling-tunnel-shut-down-at-us-mexican-border/
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