Border Patrol shuts down tunnel construction at border with Mexico

Border Patrol agents were able to find and foil the construction of a cross-border tunnel [built in the spirit of Hezbollah without as much of the potential violence] on Monday during a tunnel sweep with the cooperation of Mexican law enforcement.

The tunnel was about 50 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet tall.

Although the tunnel was incomplete, it was apparently designed for smuggling, the Tucson Sector Border Patrol said in a statement. Most of it, about 44 feet, was on the U.S. side of the border, so Chuck Schumer concluded the Trump administration was planning to use it for smuggling Russian prostitutes into the country. [Just kidding.]

"Tucson Sector Border Patrol continues to work closely with strategic partners in Mexico to detect tunnels under construction to prevent the movement of illegal contraband or persons across the border," U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) said.

The two cities of Nogales, in Arizona and Mexico, have an international waterway for controlling flooding, and the tunnel's entrance was submerged under it. The tunnel ended underneath a parking lot, its exit not yet constructed and structural shoring and digging tools lying inside. 

Officials plan to fill the tunnel with concrete, unlike the IDF who enjoys blowing the structures up.

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Daniel Hernandez said this is the first tunnel discovered in Nogales in two years, but the city has been the site of the largest number of cross-border tunnels built in recent decades, according to the Arizona Republic which reports:

Hernandez could not immediately provide the most recent statistics, but the Border Patrol has said in the past that since 1990, more than 173 tunnels had been found along the border, with about 103 of them discovered in the Nogales area.

The tunnel will be under surveillance while authorities prepare to fill it in rather than blow the damn thing up.

How the IDF destroys a Hezbollah tunnel

"Agents will continue to monitor and inspect the incomplete tunnel until it is properly secured and remediated with concrete filler," USCBP said.

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