O’Tay Can You See the Light at the Top of the Tunnel?  Border Patrol Nabs 30 Illegal Aliens – there goes the night shift at the Chinese restaurants…

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  • However, as this case demonstrates, law enforcement has also identified instances where such tunnels were used to facilitate human smuggling.
Border Patrol Agents find a tunnel opening with a ladder inside when capturing 30 illegal aliens

O’Tay Can You See the Light at the Top of the Tunnel?
Border Patrol Nabs 30 Illegal Aliens – there goes the night shift at the Chinese restaurants…

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OTAY MESA, Calif. – U.S. Border Patrol agents at San Diego Sector, discovered a cross-border smuggling tunnel early Saturday morning after they arrested 30 people who were in the country illegally near the Otay Mesa port of entry.

At around 1:12 a.m., Border Patrol agents encountered several people who had apparently just been smuggled into the U.S. Agents searched the area and discovered a crude opening in the ground with a ladder inside and determined that is was a smuggling tunnel. The tunnel’s exit is located just north of the secondary fence in the vicinity of the Otay Mesa port of entry.

The 30 aliens are now in Border Patrol custody pending further questioning. There was a total of 23 Chinese nationals, 21 men, two women, and seven Mexican nationals, 4 men and three women.

Members of the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), are currently on scene investigating.

While subterranean tunnels are not a new occurrence along the California-Mexico border, they are more commonly utilized by transnational criminal organizations to smuggle narcotics. However, as this case demonstrates, law enforcement has also identified instances where such tunnels were used to facilitate human smuggling.

The probe into the newly discovered tunnel is ongoing and members of the San Diego Tunnel Task Force are coordinating closely with their law enforcement counterparts in Mexico on the investigation. Preliminarily it appears this latest tunnel may be an extension of an incomplete tunnel previously discovered and seized by Mexican authorities.

  • However, as this case demonstrates, law enforcement has also identified instances where such tunnels were used to facilitate human smuggling.

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