US Criminalizes Building or Funding Border Tunnels Chron.com
go to original June 11, 2012

Since 1990, over 150 tunnels were discovered running from the U.S. to Mexico. (David Maung/AP)

On June 5, President Barack Obama signed the Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012 that criminalizes the creation or financing of a tunnel from Mexico to the United States that could be used for the purposes of smuggling, trafficking or illegal immigration.

The law also criminalizes the “recklessly permitting the construction of an  tunnel or subterranean passage on a person’s land.”

In the 21 years between 1990 to 2011 149 tunnels were discovered running from the U.S. to Mexico, many originating in the states of  California and Arizona.  Criminalizing the building and financing of tunnels should restrict access of drug smugglers, human traffickers and illegal immigrants to the United States.

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