2. Officials Have Discovered Roughly 181 Illicit Passages Under the U.S-Mexico Border
Bootleggers and rumrunners have used underground passages to transport illegal contraband for ages. Mexican drug cartels –especially the Sinaloa cartel -have turned illicit underground tunnels into an art form. The Sinaloa cartel built the first cross-border narcotunnel in 1989. It was a short, narrow, “gopher hole,” barely large enough for a person to crawl through.
Today, Sinaloa’s narcotunnels are engineering marvels. Many passages reach as deep as seventy feet and include elevators, electric lights, ventilation ducts, and railway systems. They have cleverly disguised entry and exit ways; for example, a Sinaloa-owned house in a Mexican border town featured a water spigot that triggered a hydraulic system that lifted a billiard table revealing a ladder to an illicit supertunnel.
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