The Libertarian Party promotes open borders. (Not Libertarians per-se, but the "Libertarian Party")
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:49 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > wrote: > 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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