By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Border Patrol believe 30 immigrants used an underground tunnel to cross a Southern California border.
Agents arrested the immigrants on Saturday and found an opening in the ground with a ladder and tunnel north of the Otay Mesa border entrance shortly after 1 a.m., CBP wrote in a statement.
Seven Mexicans and 23 Chinese citizens were taken into custody.
No injuries were reported.
“While subterranean tunnels are not a new occurrence along the California-Mexico border, they are more commonly utilized by transnational criminal organizations to smuggle narcotics,” CBP said.
“However, as this case demonstrates, law enforcement has also identified instances where such tunnels were used to facilitate human smuggling.”
