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		</div><h6><span style="color:#050000;">Border patrol agents ran across group of 30 people early hours of Saturday</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#050000;">Some of the group fled back into hole in the ground on sighting agents</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#050000;">Hole led into the cross-border tunnel</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#050000;">Authorities say the tunnel starts at a building in Tijuana, hundreds of feet from the US-Mexico border post in San Diego</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#050000;"> Tunnel stretches less than a mile long into the US</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#050000;">Agents arrested, 23 Chinese nationals and seven Mexican nati<strong>onals</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-245549" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/smuggling-tunnel-spanning-us-mexico-border-21.jpg" alt="Smuggling tunnel spanning US-Mexico border 2" width="797" height="580" /><strong>US border patrol agents discovered hidden tunnel leading from Mexico [photo]</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">U.S. border agents, Saturday discovered a new hidden tunnel running from Mexico that led to the arrest of 30 illegal immigrants.<br />
Around 1.30 am, agents patrolling at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California, saw a group of several dozen people and tried to approach them for questioning.<br />
Some people in the group ran back into what the agents discovered to be the exit of a cross-border tunnel with a ladder inside near Drucker Lane and Siempre Viva Road.<br />
The agents made 30 arrests both inside and outside the tunnel. Of those arrested, 23 were Chinese nationals and seven were Mexican nationals.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-245576" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/us-mexico-border-in-san-diego-3.jpg" alt="US-Mexico border in San Diego 3.jpg" width="1024" height="682" /><strong>The tunnel runs close to the US-Mexico border at San Diego</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">The tunnel Mexican authorities said began in a building in the Garita de Otay area in Tijuana, approximately 328 feet south of the US-Mexico border in San Diego, Otay Mesa port of entry three miles from the border crossing bridge.<br />
The opening to the tunnel had been covered by dry bush and branches.<br />
Mexican authorities are working to determine who is responsible for the build-out and operation of the smuggling tunnel.<br />
Authorities say this is the 13th underground passageway discovered along California&#8217;s border with Mexico since 2006.<br />
The use of such tunnels is not new, but they have typically been used for drug smuggling.<br />
As of 4pm on Saturday, US Customs and Border Protection [CBP] agent Eduardo Olmos told <a class="" href="http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/30-Undocumented-Immigrants-Detained-Tijuana-San-Diego-Border-Tunnel-441817983.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NBC 7 </a>that no drugs had been discovered inside the tunnel.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-245582" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/mexican-authorities-monitored-the-tunnel-from-the-tijuana-side.png" alt="Mexican authorities monitored the tunnel from the Tijuana side.PNG" width="987" height="555" />Mexican authorities [photo], monitored the tunnel from the Tijuana side of the border, trying to figure out who built and operated the tunnel </strong></strong></h6>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-245590" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/tunnel-began-in-a-building-in-tijuana-approximately-328-feet-south-of-the-u-s-mexico-border1.png" alt="Tunnel began in a building in Tijuana, approximately 328 feet south of the U.S.-Mexico border.PNG" width="987" height="555" />Mexican police cordon off the building [photo], where the smuggling tunnel reportedly began, on Calle Mar Barmejo in the Garita de Otay area in Tijuana, approximately 328 feet south of the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego and three miles from the border crossing bridge.</p>
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<p class="imageCaption">According to a release by CBP, this latest tunnel could be an extension of an incomplete tunnel previously discovered and seized by Mexican authorities.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;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.<br />
&#8216;However, as this case demonstrates, law enforcement has also identified instances where such tunnels were used to facilitate human smuggling.&#8217;</p>
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US border agents uncover smuggling tunnel crossing US-Mexico border, arrest 23 Chinese nationals and seven Mexicans
