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From Fox News: Mexican drug cartels have outfitted dozens of tunnels with rail and cart systems to whisk drugs beneath the U.S. border, posing a major challenge for the Trump administration as it works to curb the flow of illegal narcotics into the country.
The U.S. Drug and Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that most illicit drugs in the U.S. are smuggled via vehicles at southern border entry points, but some enter through cross-border tunnels and subterranean passageways.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to stop the flow of illegal drugs in the U.S., introducing a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an estimated 107,941 people in the U.S. died from a drug-involved overdose in 2022.
Former DEA Senior Special Agent Michael Brown, who is the global director of counter-narcotics technology at Rigaku Analytical Devices, told Fox News Digital that the agency blows up the drug trafficking tunnels to make them impassable.
Brown explained a key problem in finding the tunnels: the entrances and exits are protected by “cover-ups” which appear to be normal storefronts or warehouses, so every pizza shop, mechanic shop, or any other business may potentially be built over a hidden tunnel entrance.
While border crossings have plummeted since President Trump’s inauguration, the underground tunnels are still a major issue.
Brown compared the cartel tunnels at the border to the Hamas tunnels in Gaza.
“Cartels have more money than Hamas, when you think about it. And, you know, it took hundreds of millions of dollars in aid money to build those tunnels,” Brown said. “Well, the cartels have billions of dollars.”
He explained that the tunnels are literally “underground cities” complete with air ducts, office space, weapon stashes and railway tracks.
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Mexican authorities launch operation to uncover more illegal tunnels after discovering one connecting El Paso and Juarez
It has lighting, ventilation, and connects to a storm sewer@mohammed11saleh tells you more about the underground route used to smuggle migrants to US pic.twitter.com/aDQExB9Wa9
— WION (@WIONews) February 7, 2025
Tunnel for funneling drugs and illegals uncovered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
The tunnel apparently leads to El Paso, Texas
Looks like Trump’s wall might need to start underground pic.twitter.com/vRW6dfpcaH
— RT (@RT_com) January 12, 2025
Mexican drug cartels have outfitted dozens of tunnels with rail and cart systems to whisk drugs beneath the U.S. border, posing a major challenge for the Trump admin as it works to curb the flow of illegal narcotics into the country…https://t.co/MlB8LjiLdG
— Sarah Rumpf Whitten (@s_rumpfwhitten) February 12, 2025
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