ONCE AGAIN YOU DISPLAY A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING BASED UPON LAZY RESEARCH.
"But the fences did not stop the drug smuggling. With a near-infinite supply of money and resources on the other side, drugs continue to move under, around and through anything the country builds."
No wall will stop them.
PICTURES OF BACKPACKING DRUG SMUGGLERS IS SILLY!!!!
When drug smuggling moved to the ports of entry, it was by design.
here would be shootouts over drug loads,” Unzueta says. The retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spent 30 years trying to stop drugs from coming into San Diego, as an undercover agent and later as a top criminal investigator.
“This area used to be so dangerous that we couldn’t do what we are doing right now,” Customs and Border Protection Agent Joe Hernandez says. “We couldn’t just drive into this area, we would’ve been assaulted within seconds of being here.”
Fences went up, but drugs kept moving.
After the government built fences in San Diego, drug smugglers turned to the ocean, underground tunnels and, most commonly, the ports of entry. Last year more than 90 percent of the drug seizures happened in the port of entry, where millions of cars drive into San Diego from Mexico every year.
The idea was that fences would divert drug trafficking to one area: the ports. Here, the agents have the advantage of lights, drug-sniffing canine patrols, X-ray machines and other high-tech equipment. Diverting drugs to the ports was a safer option than sending agents to rural areas of the country, two hours away from their nearest backup.
In this sense, the fencing has been a success. But there have also been unintended consequences.
Since 2001, the San Diego Sector’s Tunnel Task Force has found more than 60 smuggling tunnels in the county.
“With the advent of the infrastructure between the ports of entry, one of the unintended consequences were the huge narcotics tunnels that were created that went over 100 feet deep and ran seven or eight football fields in length,” says Unzueta.
Most of those tunnels are in Otay Mesa, a massive warehouse district just north of a commercial truck port of entry.
https://www.usatoday.com/border-wall/story/dr...559814001/
"But the fences did not stop the drug smuggling. With a near-infinite supply of money and resources on the other side, drugs continue to move under, around and through anything the country builds."
No wall will stop them.
PICTURES OF BACKPACKING DRUG SMUGGLERS IS SILLY!!!!
When drug smuggling moved to the ports of entry, it was by design.
here would be shootouts over drug loads,” Unzueta says. The retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spent 30 years trying to stop drugs from coming into San Diego, as an undercover agent and later as a top criminal investigator.
“This area used to be so dangerous that we couldn’t do what we are doing right now,” Customs and Border Protection Agent Joe Hernandez says. “We couldn’t just drive into this area, we would’ve been assaulted within seconds of being here.”
Fences went up, but drugs kept moving.
After the government built fences in San Diego, drug smugglers turned to the ocean, underground tunnels and, most commonly, the ports of entry. Last year more than 90 percent of the drug seizures happened in the port of entry, where millions of cars drive into San Diego from Mexico every year.
The idea was that fences would divert drug trafficking to one area: the ports. Here, the agents have the advantage of lights, drug-sniffing canine patrols, X-ray machines and other high-tech equipment. Diverting drugs to the ports was a safer option than sending agents to rural areas of the country, two hours away from their nearest backup.
In this sense, the fencing has been a success. But there have also been unintended consequences.
Since 2001, the San Diego Sector’s Tunnel Task Force has found more than 60 smuggling tunnels in the county.
“With the advent of the infrastructure between the ports of entry, one of the unintended consequences were the huge narcotics tunnels that were created that went over 100 feet deep and ran seven or eight football fields in length,” says Unzueta.
Most of those tunnels are in Otay Mesa, a massive warehouse district just north of a commercial truck port of entry.
https://www.usatoday.com/border-wall/story/dr...559814001/
