Tunnel discovered under US-Mexico border

MEXICO CITY — Mexican federal police say they have found an illegal tunnel stretching under the US-Mexico border.

yesterday's statement says that Mexican police working with the US Border Patrol from Nogales, Arizona, located the entrance to the tunnel inside the wall of a storm drain on the Mexican side of the border.

The tunnel was 103 feet (31.5 meters) long and ran toward an empty lot on the Arizona side. The first half of the tunnel had been stabilized with wooden beams, but the second half was incomplete. It had not yet broken the surface in the US

Drug trafficking organizations use the tunnels to smuggle drugs into the US Mexico's Sinaloa cartel is known for being especially adept at tunnel building.