Posted Nov 22, 2011, 2:34 pm
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents discovered a tunnel in Nogales on Monday used to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.
It was the second drug tunnel found in Nogales in less than a week. ICE agents shut down a tunnel on Nov. 15.
The tunnel found Monday is more sophisticated than others recently found, the Border Patrol said. It is 319 feet long and extends 219 feet into the United States and 100 feet into Mexico. It is about 20 feet underground, is 3 feet wide and 2 feet high.
What makes the tunnel different from others is that it appears to have been chiseled through solid rock and had various digging tools, saws, electricity, lighting, water pumps, plywood shoring and 4x4 support beams, the Border Patrol said.
Agents found 26 bundles of marijuana, weighing 430 pounds and worth $215,000, in the tunnel. The drugs were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Border Patrol said.
On Nov. 15, a tunnel was discovered that ran between Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Ariz. The entrance was hidden under the porch of a Nogales home about a half mile west of the DeConcini Port of Entry.
Another tunnel was found that day near San Diego that ran from a California warehouse to a site in Tijuana, Mexico. ICE seized 9.5 tons of marijuana from the warehouse and a truck and another 5 to 6 tons were found in Tijuana.
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The TEA PARTY will call for the double layer fence enhanced with nasty razor wire on its 15 to 20 foot height as designated in the ignored 2006 Secure Fence Act. Complete with a double track between the fences for the US Border Patrol to travel at speed to where needed. The TEA PARTY will also enforce the fence with a permanent Military presence along the perimeter.
It could possibly be the last chance to alter this unfettered epidemic that the legislators in Congress refuse to acknowledge which is causing financial ruin. If Lamar Smith’s E-Verify becomes the law of the land, subsequently uncountable numbers will begin to self-depart as the business world are held accountable The businesses causing the encouragement of bring cheap labor here will begin to ebb, as the owners will be facing stiffer fines, loss of company assets and incarceration. The leftist party will use any means possible to negate a Mandatory law passing, which also includes the heavyweights in the Republican hierarchy.
Those not working and want a job should get into action and phone 202-224-3121. This is the Washington phone exchange, which can direct you to all House Representatives responsible for moving Chairman Lamar Smith’s ‘Legal Workforce Act’ (bill H.R.2885) to the house floor.
Unless the People, namely the TEA PARTY can rescind or amend the misinterpreted 14th Amendment clause, any illegal alien family can get a free public education and health care. The best chance we have is the national ’THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ a deterrent called E-Verify to stop the hiring of illegal workers. Send a free fax by using NumbersUSA, a complimentary buffet of immigration notices to the lawmakers. If you want to stop being victimized by the Democratic and Liberal side of Washington, then speak up for your rights. YOUR VOTES ARE POWERFUL LEVERAGE! The Tea Party leaders will intrude in any effort to pass a new mass amnesty and will take away federal funding for any ordinance to promote a Sanctuary City or revise upwards CHAIN MIGRATION, which is another form of Amnesty. The IRS will be investigated for inept procedures giving $4.2 billion dollars, when they never paid any taxes, including fraudulent illegal immigrant child tax credits. Further they will reduce the federal government and return Departments to state level control. A new tax code will be introduced with none of the ‘Quid pro Quo’ of special privileges of subsidies to the giant agricultural corporations, the General Electric of this world.
The DOJ is also trying to stop the passage of policing laws in the other 45 states through suing them in the courts. Yet five states mainly on the East coast have enacted passage of their own laws, to survive the hordes of economic illegal aliens feeding from the public assistance of a excess of welfare benefits. Just in the past few months the State of Alabama although hammered by the open border activists, the DOJ have factual evidence that their policing laws are working. September was the first full month that the policing reform was enforced, and the unemployment rate fell from 9.8 percent in September to 9.3 percent in October, according to a Nov. 18 (GOA) General Accounting Office report from the state government. You cannot change the inevitable that as illegal aliens leave; jobs are beginning to materialize for US workers?
Aid that normally belongs to the disenfranchised poor of this nation, has been whisked away to supplement foreign nationals, who are stealing the country blind. The racket of having a baby here, to get instant citizenship and thereby a toehold in legality, is one of the biggest financial disasters, the courts have imposed; unfunded mandates that the 50 states cannot decline. Health care for economic immigrants and families has been badly mauling medical care daily, as well as the public school system that we inherited from Plyler v. Doe. Illegal alien’s parents are acutely aware that taxpayers must carry the burden in all 50 states to educate their children. It is mainly unlikely that we can undo these unfunded mandates for free health, schooling for illegal aliens and their children, but E-Verify has the power to send the jobless parents home and most will not leave without their children. In a Rasmussen poll recently published, shows that 65 % more voters—more than ever, are opposed to granting automatic U.S. citizenship to a child born to an illegal immigrant in this country
Our country needs professional people with science, math and technology backgrounds, not people who become a taxpayer’s nightmare.