Border Patrol agents discover smuggling tunnel running from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso
equipped with electricity and a working ventilation system that smugglers had been using between El Paso, Texas , and Juarez, Mexico .
“Transnational criminal organizations mistakenly think they can avoid detection by moving people and contraband underground,” HSI El Paso Special Agent in Charge Jason Stevens said in a statement.Tatted-up Tren de Aragua hellcat ‘La Barbie’ was allowed to ditch ankle monitor before being caught running hotel sex prison: sources“This recent discovery is a significant blow to their operations as it highlights our capability to disrupt their sophisticated smuggling networks,” he added.
The discovery of the El Paso tunnel comes after border officials found their third smuggling tunnel at the Arizona-Mexico border area.US and Mexican officials have worked together to take down these suspected “narco tunnels” into the US, with the Arizona tunnel discovered while it was still under construction in San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico.
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