we know who promotes open borders in America. the same people who promote closed borders in israel.
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:42:45 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > How tunnels are built, used along US-Mexico border > > http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DRUG_TUNNEL_ROBOTS_QA?SITE=AP&SECT > ION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DRUG_TUNNEL_ROBOTS_QA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT> > > > By BRIAN SKOLOFF and JACQUES BILLEAUD > Associated Press > > NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) -- As border security has tightened, drug cartels have > turned to tunneling beneath the ground to avoid detection. > > Nearly 170 tunnels have been found nationwide since 1990, most along the > Arizona and California border with Mexico. 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. > > HOW ARE THEY BUILT? > > Tunnel construction ranges from extremely rudimentary, a small burrow dug > by > hand sometimes only large enough for a person to crawl through, to very > sophisticated, including lights, supports to hold up the ceiling and > ventilation. They can range from just a few feet stretching from one side > of > the border to the other, to up to a quarter mile long. > > Some tunnels merely go from one side of the border to the other with the > contraband being offloaded in a field or on public land, while others exit > into warehouses or homes along the border. > > Miners and other laborers hired by cartels use hoes, jackhammers, shovels > and picks to gouge out soil and load the dirt into buckets that are brought > back out of the tunnel's starting point in Mexico. Their tools are > old-fashioned and can be bought at home improvement stores. Miners, for > instance, must use compasses because GPS devices don't work underground. > > Smugglers have dug dozens of crude tunnels in Nogales, Ariz., that begin in > Mexico and tie into the Arizona city's storm drainage system. > > For sophisticated tunnels, such as those found near San Diego, cartels will > hire engineers and miners to build the tunnels. A cartel will have a > financier or a cell that reports to the cartel bosses and runs the > construction. > > U.S. border officials estimate that the more sophisticated tunnels probably > cost between $2 million to $3 million to build. > > HOW TUNNELS ARE USED? > > Smuggling groups use tunnels to move drugs, guns and people who want to > sneak across the U.S. border, though traffickers are sometimes selective > about what they will move through their tunnels. > > Experts say sophisticated tunnels are used for mostly drug and gun > smuggling, though people who don't want to risk traveling above ground will > occasionally be sneaked through those tunnels. > > Cocaine and methamphetamine are brought in through the tunnels, but > marijuana - which is big and bulky and therefore difficult to move - is the > most prevalent drug transported through the tunnels. > > Authorities found a 600-yard tunnel in Southern California during November > 2011 that resulted in seizures of 32 tons of marijuana on both sides of the > border, with 26 tons found on the U.S. side, accounting for one of the > largest marijuana busts in U.S. history. That tunnel was equipped with > electric railcars, lighting and ventilation while wooden planks lined the > floor. > > Immigrant smugglers use "gopher hole" tunnels made up of huge PVC pipes > that > are buried underground and span the border, providing enough space through > which a person can barely squeeze. > > The storm-drain tunnels in places like Nogales are used for both immigrant > and drug smuggling. > > HOW ARE TUNNELS DISCOVERED? > > The majority of tunnels are found by human intelligence, either by Mexican > or U.S. authorities patrolling the border and noticing the ground has been > disturbed, or through informants who tip authorities to their presence. > > 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 12 pounds and can navigate through passageways that are only > several feet wide, are being deployed this year across southern Arizona and > California. > > Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs > Enforcement. > > --- > > ========================================== > (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in > this > message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to > these copyrighted items are reserved. 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