Drug Cartels Use All Sorts Of Methods To Get Their Product Into The US

Nearly 70 Mexican Border Tunnels Discovered in 5 Years

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Government Accountability Office

by RYAN SAAVEDRA4 May 2017Washington, D.C.210

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A report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) this week demonstrates all tunnels discovered were under the U.S.-Mexico Border.

The report revealed that from fiscal years 2011 through 2016, 67 cross-border smuggling tunnels were discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Sixty-two out of the 67 smuggling tunnels were in the Border Patrol’s Tucson, Arizona, and San Diego, California, sectors which are known strongholds of the Sinaloa Cartel.

The GAO also found there were 534 detected ultralight aircraft incursions and 309 detected incidents of drug smuggling that involved small fishing vessels. Seventy-five percent of the maritime drug smuggling incidents occurred on the Pacific coast.

“While these methods account for a small proportion of known smuggling, they can be used to transport significant quantities of drugs or for terrorist activity,” the report noted.

Breitbart Texas has reported extensively on the different techniques used by Mexican cartels to smuggle narcotics and humans into the United States. Most recently, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents discovered two tunnels within the span of a week. The first was on April 26, when agents discovered a tunnel that extended into the United States by 60 yards and had collapsed. The next tunnel was reported by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on April 28, where agents found one under construction.

In April 2016, U.S. authorities found what they believed was the largest ever cross-border smuggling tunnel along the California-Mexico Border. The tunnel was estimated to be over 800 yards long and included an elevator, lights, rails, and a ventilation system.

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Finally A Senator Tells The Truth

Former lawmaker blasts Congress: America doesn’t trust you

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Sam Rolley

Former budget hawk Sen. Tom Coburn visited some of his old colleagues on Wednesday to talk about something with which he’s very familiar: How wasteful congressional spending is killing the country.

Coburn, famous for the annual government waste reports he produced in Congress, joined the head of the Government Accountability Office to talk about the massive amount of money currently being wasted on duplicative federal programs.

More on that here:  Common sense could save taxpayers billions

“In 2015 I spent my time in 21 different states,” Coburn said during his opening remarks. “And America doesn’t trust you anymore. That’s the truth. Because they don’t see the actions coming out of Congress that should be coming out.”

The retired lawmaker went on to note that a huge part of the problem is Congress’s failure to force federal agencies to comply with the recommendations of GAO reports which routinely unveil ways that boneheaded bureaucrats are wasting tax dollars.

“You’ve lost their confidence,” he said. “And that’s not one party, that’s both. And so when you have hundreds of billions of dollars that could be saved and aren’t, and they know it. You know, they actually read your reports. People online, and then they use social media, pass it around.”

Coburn noted that median family incomes, stifled by “too much government” and “too intrusive government,” haven’t budged since 1988.

The lawmaker added that Congress’s failures to shrink the size of government are going to cause the stagnation to continue.

“The unfunded liabilities of this country, with its debt, is $142 trillion,” he said. “That’s $1 million per family, or that’s $1 million per taxpayer. Nobody knows what a trillion is but when you’re telling a young family with small kids, ‘Oh, by the way, here’s the debt burden that’s coming to you over the next 25 years, you better be prepared for it.’”

Coburn told the lawmakers that it’s time to stop worrying about offending different groups of voters and get busy correcting economic problems.

“Here’s what I’ve discovered, all this waste, all this duplication, all this fraud has a constituency. And so a lot of people don’t want to take a vote to eliminate it because it will offend a group of voters or a group of contributors.”

“I think you ought to offend them all,” Coburn said.

Coburn is currently working with an organization calling for a Convention of the States to force Congress to balance the budget. Learn more here.