ICE spokesperson Lauren Mack said such tunnels had become a “major phenomenon ongoing increasingly in the last decade or so” for cartels in Mexico trying to get their product into the hands of U.S. customers.
This image provided by the San Diego Tunnel Task Force shows the entrance to a cross-border tunnel in San Diego, Nov. 29, 2011.
Federal agents in California have uncovered the “most sophisticated” drug tunnel in years, the latest discovery in what an official said had become a “major phenomenon” in the war on drugs.
A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to give details on the tunnel which ran from Tijuana to San Diego but said, “When we talk about a sophisticated tunnel, we’re talking about tunnels that have some type of reinforcement in them and a lot of work has been put into them to help them smuggle the drugs in an easier way.
“In the past we have found tunnels that have railways and lighting and ventilation and all kinds of different scenarios and this is one of the most sophisticated that we have discovered perhaps ever, but definitely at least in the last five years,” ICE spokesperson Lauren Mack said.
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