Recent successes have been encouraging. The most ambitious of these was discovered on January 26 of this year. a tunnel which opened into a vacant warehouse just east of the Otay Mesa port of entry in Califomia. A tip from a confidential informant to the Tunnel Task Forcestaffed by DEA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-led to the discovery of this tunnel. which started 150 yards south of the border and proceeded an incredible onehalf mile into the United States. A DEA investigation determined that the tunnelwhich was equipped with electric lighting and ventilationhad probably been operating since November and had been used day and night since its completion to smuggle marijuana and other illegal drugs into the country. Any trucks leaving the warehouse loaded with drugs would have quickly disappeared into the steady and heavy traffic of legitimate goods flowing through that immediate area.
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