By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Border Patrol agents have found dozens of tunnels near the border of Mexico.
When agents locate the taste underground networks used by Mexican drug cartels, they dump concrete to seal the passageway and stamp them with a date, the New York Times reports.
“The clock is ticking as soon as they complete a tunnel,” said Kevin Hecht, a Border Patrol tunneling expert. “They know that we will eventually find them. But if even one load gets through before we find it, they consider it a success.”
Many of the tunnels are used to circumvent large walls – like the one supported by Donald Trump.
“The Border Patrol has done an incredible job, given its resources,” said Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, the White House drug policy director in the Clinton administration. “But it would be a stretch to say that the border and border communities are secure when the agency lacks a high-confidence ability to detect cross-border tunnels. No wall is going to fix that.”
Trump has pledged to use sensor to “find and dislocate tunnels and keep out criminal cartels,” but no such technology has proven successful.
