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Drug smugglers can be pretty creative when it comes to moving illicit goods across borders.

That’s why the focus on a border wall in the US was met with such ridicule. A fence or wall is going to have little effect on cartels.

This is no more evident than in the discovery, back in January, of the longest recorded smuggling tunnel on the south-west border, complete with a passageway stretching three-quarters of a mile from Tijuana to a warehouse district located 15 miles south of San Diego.

This wasn’t the first tunnel discovered between Mexico and America. The first cross-border smuggling tunnel was discovered in 1990, and was commissioned by drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, then-head of the Sinaloa cartel,

Now, another cross-border tunnel has been unearthed, on March 19.

CNN reports,

Federal agents in San Diego seized about 4,400 pounds of drugs from a sophisticated smuggling tunnel that stretched into Tijuana, Mexico, authorities in California announced Tuesday.

The three-foot-wide tunnel is more than 2,000 feet long and has reinforced walls, ventilation, lighting and a rail system, according to a statement from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It had an average depth of 31 feet.

That just under 2 000 kilograms of drugs.

The tunnel was linked to a warehouse in San Diego, and another in Tijuana.

Authorities found 1,300 pounds of cocaine, 86 pounds of methamphetamine, 17 pounds of heroin, 3,000 pounds of marijuana and more than two pounds of fentanyl in the tunnel, according to the statement. The drugs have a street value of $29.6 million.

These tunnels are so prevalent that America has a dedicated Tunnel Task Force to locate and shut them down.

Agents estimated that this particular tunnel had been in use for a few months.

Somewhere, a cartel boss is having a very bad day.

[source:cnn]