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Home Front: Politix
Another Cross-Border Tunnel Found in San Diego
2006-02-11
SAN DIEGO (AP) - An incomplete tunnel was found in the same area where investigators recently found one of the longest passages discovered beneath the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said. The 3-foot-wide tunnel extended from just south of the border fence in Mexico to a point about 23 feet into the United States, ending at a concrete levee, Border Patrol spokesman Richard Kite said.

A patrol agent noticed a distortion in the road running along the border fence, and agents digging in the area found the tunnel Thursday, Kite said. ``It was only about six inches below the asphalt,'' he said.

A 2,400-foot tunnel linking a warehouse near the airport in Tijuana, Mexico, to another warehouse in San Diego was discovered last month.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Don't publicize the tunnels. Booby trap them. A claymore will discourage use of the tunnel.

Install sensors to locate tunneling -- say they're seismic monitors -- and counter-mine.

Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-02-11 12:41  

#5  How long has the assault on our southern border been going on unchecked? How long has it taken to put a new government in place in Baghdad? Actually, putting a new government in place is probably quicker. You know, we do have a few people with some experience in working with the locals in making new democratic governments.
Posted by: Ebbaimp Pheper3780   2006-02-11 19:49  

#4  The problem is what to put in its place. I look around and don't see many promising alternatives. And if the whole place collapses, things will get even worse on the border for a good while.

No easy answers.
Posted by: lotp   2006-02-11 17:22  

#3  Time to work just as actively to bring down the Mexican political structure as we worked to bring down the E.German
I would say social structure.... but still point is taken.
Posted by: 6   2006-02-11 13:10  

#2  Berlin Wall indeed. The idiots don't get the full implication. You dig tunnels to freedom, not from freedom. Which if you had a fraction of a brain would tell you that Mexico City is NOT freedom. That is where the solution is. The people quit coming over the Berlin Wall when the East German government collapsed. Put two and two together. Time to work just as actively to bring down the Mexican political structure as we worked to bring down the E.German. Meanwhile get Checkpoint Charlie up tomarrow.
Posted by: Clinerong Flavick8006   2006-02-11 08:33  

#1  Tunneling proves walls and fencing work. More concrete and wire please.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-02-11 07:02  

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