Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

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Hi-tech tunnel found between the U.S. / Mexico border

On the border between Mexico and the United States, a Border Patrol team found a tunnel with railroad tracks and equipped with an electricity and ventilation system powered by solar energy.

The tunnel would allow a drug dealer to cross the border from a house located in Jacumé, Mexican municipality of Mexicali, in Baja California, to Jacumba, San Diego County, in California.

The Border Patrol reported that the tunnel exceeded the US border by up to 100 meters and investigations of National Security elements and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reported that the tunnel had not been completed and no . . .

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