The 'US-Mexico border is literally riddled with tunnels'

[TomSea]

The 'US-Mexico border is literally riddled with tunnels'

Donald Trump doubled down on his promises to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, saying, "We will build a great wall along the southern border" in speech on Wednesday evening.

Trump has promoted the wall as a part of a solution to cross-border crime and to illegal immigration.

But just a few days before Trump's awkward meeting with the Mexican president and his speech, an example of one of the plan's key flaws emerged: a tunnel.

A bi-national inspection of an underground drainage system in Nogales, Arizona, came across a partially constructed tunnel extending from a cemetery in Sonora, Mexico, into US territory.

Inside the tunnel, agents discovered digging tools, power cords, and a gas-powered generator. Hundreds of such passages have been found since the 1990s, many of them around Nogales.

None of this is exceptional.

“Drug traffickers love using tunnels,” journalist Ioan Grillo told Business Insider earlier this year. “The Mexico-US border is like a block of cheese with holes in it, with tunnels across it.”

Read More At: http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-mexican-drug-cartel-narco-tunnels-on-the-us-mexico-border-2016-9/#cartel-laborers-dig-down-into-this-layer-of-clay-which-is-studier-than-normal-soil-and-reduces-the-need-for-bracing-and-other-infrastructure-to-shore-up-the-passageway-vigil-told-business-insider-8

Pictures too.

[ABX]

Yep, all the promise about a wall is just putting a band-aid on a malignant skin cancer tumor to deny what the real problem is. Nothing will change, even if it is a 100 foot electrified wall, if you don't deal with the magnets that are attracting people here. Just like with existing border protections, just as fast as we can put them up, people will find a way to circumvent them.

[Fishrrman]

Of course, the border wall should be built in any case.

If the wall is large and sturdy enough (say reaching a height of 30-35 feet) it will also require a substantial foundation, perhaps deep enough to expose existing tunnels.

In any case, we should bring in Israeli expertise in tunnel detection.
They have PLENTY of knowledge in finding and disabling them.

[TomSea]

Saudi Arabia has their wall. Something like this.

[montanajoe]

Saudi Arabia has their wall. Something like this.

Say what?

This is a supposed (proposed)  wall between SA and IRAQ..

Oil production is down so I suppose one could make an argument that the Saudi's should keep Iraqui's out