Longest-ever Border Smuggling Tunnel Found. San Diego Professor Concludes: Walls Don't Work

U.S. authorities recently discovered the longest smuggling tunnel under the southern border.Show more

The tunnel stretches from Tijuana to San Diego, totaling 4,300 feet long. The previous record holder was discovered in San Diego in 2014, which was 3,000 feet long.

Homeland Security Special Agent Cardell Morant said in a press release,

"While subterranean tunnels are not a new occurrence along the California-Mexico border, the sophistication and length of this particular tunnel demonstrates the time-consuming efforts transnational criminal organizations will undertake to facilitate cross-border smuggling.”

According to U.S. Border Patrol, the tunnel features a rail and drainage system, air ventilation, electrical cables, and an elevator.

DEA Special Agent John Callery said,

"As efforts to strengthen security on our Southern border increase, Mexican drug cartels are forced underground to smuggle their deadly drugs into the United States. The sophistication of this tunnel demonstrates the determination and monetary resources of the cartels."

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With more walls comes more tunnels. The year George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act, the number of tunnels found tripled to 18.

So does this mean that we should stop building border walls and fence if the cartel are just going to build tunnels underneath them?

The mainstream media always takes the discovery of a new smuggling tunnel as an opportunity to argue that border walls don’t work.

The New York Times commented,

“For all the talk about a wall between the United States and Mexico, the proliferation of such subterranean passageways demonstrates the problem with border security is as much below ground as above.”

ABC said one of the key takeaways of the recent discovery is that, “the tunnel exposes the limits of Donald Trump’s border wall.”

And last year when a similar tunnel was discovered, Now This mocked Trump with a video titled, “Trump learns Why a Wall Won’t Work From a Border Patrol Agent.”

The KPBS news station asked a professor at the University of Sand Diego what his thoughts were on the topic and he said,

“The reality is, drug tunnels are an illustration of why border walls don’t work. The wall simply ensures that there will be even more creative ways of getting around it.”

But Joshua Wilson, VP of the National Border Patrol Council, argued that walls do stop smuggling whereby pointing out the fact that tunnels are an issue primarily in border areas with good soil and nearby warehouses.

The fact of the matter is that border walls work to reduce illegal immigrants and drugs entering the country.

Of course, It must be part of a multi-prong strategy of having cameras, drones, and agents.

Carla Provost, the chief of U.S. border patrol, stated,

"We already have many miles, over 600 miles [1,000 km] of barrier along the border. I have been in locations where there was no barrier, and then I was there when we put it up. It certainly helps. It's not a be all end all. It's a part of a system. We need the technology, we need that infrastructure".

To suggest we shouldn’t build a wall because the cartel will build a tunnel is like suggesting we shouldn’t have border patrol agents because the cartel will go around them.

The only way to stop the cartel from trying to dig tunnels is to make it so easy for them to get their drugs into the country aboveground that they wouldn’t even bother to dig.

Tunnels are in fact a sign that the wall is working.

And the more money the cartel is forced to spend digging tunnels then the more money their drugs will cost (because shipping & handling needs to be factored into the price of any product) and the higher the price, the less demand. And the less demand, the less money the cartel will have, and the less money the cartel has, the better life will be for Americans AND Mexicans.

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