According to officials with the San Diego Sector Border Patrol, the tunnel—still under construction when it was discovered in early April—extended more than 1,000 feet into U.S. territory and ...

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona have uncovered another illegal tunnel running under the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest in a series of discoveries and the result of ...

SAN DIEGO — On Wednesday, Border Patrol agents revealed new information about the "longest cross-border tunnel ever discovered" that they learned about in August 2019, according to Border Patrol ...

And for Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, the number of tunnels found in the U.S. has decreased since 2016. According to Border Patrol, five tunnels were found in 2016, 2 in 2017, and 1 in 2018.

The incomplete tunnel, which extended more than 1,000 feet inside the U.S., was actively under construction when Border Patrol agents with the San Diego Sector Tunnel Team uncovered it.

They are known in the U.S. Border Patrol as "tunnel rats" -- agents who go in clandestine passages that have proliferated on the U.S.-Mexico border over the past 20 years to smuggle drugs.

Sept. 12, 2019: Tunnel discovered near border, DHS confirmed March 19, 2020: Federal agents discover 2,000-foot tunnel under border Aug. 2, 2021: ICE says drug tunnel found in Mexicali near border ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — U.S. Border Patrol is speaking out for the first time since the discovery of a drug-smuggling tunnel running between Tijuana and Otay Mesa back in April.

According to officials with the San Diego Sector Border Patrol, the tunnel—still under construction when it was discovered in early April—extended more than 1,000 feet into U.S. territory and ...