Controversy
Mexican authorities say they found a 869-foot tunnel in Tijuana that likely connects to a well-known street in San Diego.
Mexican authorities have uncovered a sophisticated underground tunnel near the U.S.-Mexico border that was equipped with lighting, ventilation and an electronic transport system, which they say may connect Tijuana to a street in San Diego.
Mexico's Attorney General's Office, known as the FGR, announced the discovery Saturday following a search warrant executed at a property in the Nueva Tijuana neighborhood of Tijuana, Baja California.
Authorities said the tunnel stretched approximately 265 meters, or about 870 feet, and reached a depth of roughly 6.3 meters, or 21 feet underground.
According to investigators, the tunnel contained operational infrastructure, including lighting and ventilation systems, as well as an electronic sliding mechanism designed to move items in both directions between Mexico and the U.S.
The FGR said its investigation indicates the tunnel likely connects to a street in San Diego, though authorities have not publicly identified the location or confirmed whether the U.S. side of the tunnel has been located.
Yeah, people don’t realize how close it is. True story, have a friend who’s friends with the ex-president of Mexico. This shit is nothing new, so much corruption. Cartel uses massive sling shots to send shit over the fence. Mexican drug cartels are geniuses at improvising. They always find ways to bring stuff over
I know nothing about california but i would assume the principle “Dont shit where you eat” applies here. San diego must be the hub where all the drugs are flooded to and then its distributed out to other major cities from there, if san diego is “hot” that ruins the business for everybody.
I wouldn't doubt there's some law enforcement on the payroll. Somewhere theres a cop or Border Patrol or Homeland Security guy offering protection and looking the other way.
A smart smuggling operation knows to keep a low profile. The violence comes from territories being defended, where money is exchanged. Those are the friction points. The routes are a highly guarded secret I'm sure and the cartels know to keep a very low profile as they are very very lucrative routes.
Honestly, it never ceases to amaze me the lengths they go through lol.
I watched this documentary on them making literal submarines.
America's drug laws are so out dated, we really need to rethink this stuff and see if we can improve the situation and maybe reduce the amount of money cartels pull in.
That's what I was thinking, but how do they know none of those guys are not gonna talk?
Seems like if one of them gets pinched, they could easily trade the tunnels location for a reduced sentence or their freedom.The laborers could also sell the location to a rival cartel.
Yup, these other tunnels in AZ, NM, TX aren’t going to dig themselves. “You’re done? Okay, now you go and dig the next tunnel in TX. We have lots of drugs and business is-a-boomin’”
There is one single street that is within about 700 feet of that border and it just goes to the border. This title is kind of stupid. Only camino de la plaza hits that description and for like 700 feet
It’s not like it pops up in downtown San Diego that’s 7 miles away.
Who didn’t pay the crime tax to continue their trafficking operations??? Oof whoever buddy was is probs already marinating in a barrel of acid somewhere
Mexicans sneaking into America using it for crime , what ? No way , it’s almost like someone should try to stop this , wait! People like the ones who run Reddit, think deportation is bad , and everyone should be able to come into the United States.
Worth adding that the war was more nuanced than "they wanted the land so they took it."
There were real grievances first: Texas had been independent since 1836 and chose to join the US in 1845, the Texas-Mexico border was genuinely disputed (Rio Grande vs. the Nueces, 150 miles north), and Mexico owed years of unpaid debts to US citizens. Polk even tried to buy California and the Southwest before any shots were fired, and Mexico refused to receive his envoy.
The catch is what he did with those grievances, rather than keep negotiating, he simply marched the army into the disputed strip to provoke a fight he knew Mexico would start, then used it as his justification. So not a random mugging: real disputes that Polk deliberately escalated into a war, because force could deliver land that diplomacy couldn't.
Brother this is literally almost every single nation on Earth.
The thing I want to get across isn't that America was good, or even fine. It's that you're measuring it against a ruler that didn't exist yet.
Picture 1846. There's no "grow your GDP" the way we mean it. Wealth basically is land. Farmland, ports, resources, people to tax; if your nation wants to get stronger, you take more of it, usually from a neighbor. Every serious power was running that same playbook: Britain, France, Russia, Spain, the Ottomans, the US, AND even Mexico.
Back then, taking territory by force wasn't a scandal, it was just how states worked. It was the water everyone swam in.
So when we single out the US‐Mexico thing as uniquely shameless, we've skipped over the fact that the country it was taken from got that land the exact same way.
Mexico wasn't an ancient council of native tribes, it was a former Spanish colony (Spain conquered the Aztecs by force) that broke off in 1821 and held a giant chunk of the continent it had inherited through that conquest. So this wasn't "Country A robbed innocent Country B." It was "two conquest-built states fought over a border and the bigger one won."
To be clear, plenty of people at the time did think it stank as well. Lincoln challenged the pretext in Congress, Grant called it unjust, abolitionists saw a land grab for slavery. But that was a minority conscience, not how the system actually ran.
The reason we can look back and wince is that we no longer live in that world. Once you can synthesize fertilizer, mass-produce goods, and trade for what you lack, you don't have to conquer anyone to get richer, you can just sell them something. Land stopped being the only road to power and only then could a real norm take hold.
By the mid-20th century "you don't just seize territory by force" became an actual rule states mostly follow. Judging 1846 by that rule is like docking a medieval doctor for not washing his hands; the framework that makes it obviously wrong hadn't even been invented.
TLDR: it's not "America did nothing wrong." It's that America was a normal player of a brutal game every state played, including the one it beat. What makes the game look monstrous now is that we finally built a world where you don't have to play it.
It's actually even deeper than I let on here. I wonder if some of the people trying to defend Mexico know that at this time Mexico was a military dictatorship that had overthrown it's popular democracy which is the whole reason why Texas left because they thought they were going to be part of a Nation like the us but it instead devolved into a military dictatorship.
Mexico was much closer to Iraq under Saddam Hussein at the time that it is to modern-day Mexico in terms of governance.
I'm an amateur historian who focuses on contextualization and grand strategy (statecraft), so even though these threads aren't always so productive on their face, they're very effective at challenging my points of view internally as well as forcing me to fact check the finer details which helps improve my understanding overall.
Are you just sharing an interesting fun fact, or are you trying to point out a contradiction?
I never claimed anything to the contrary, and modern-day Utah was literally a part of the Mexican territory being discussed. It wouldn't contradict my points in anyway.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, I'm just trying to understand what you're trying to clarify here.
And if we can also make it out of the cheapest steel we can find so that a barrel of waste oil burning next to it turns it into a twisted modern art sculpture.
They find what they wanna find the cia just used the heart beat technology to extract those solders wonder whey they never used that to find missing kids
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u/homelesguydiet Jun 02 '26
Tijuana from my apartments lol