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Terror fears grow over U.S. borders - When U.S. customs officials discovered the latest tunnel under the border last month, they were stunned. Complete with concrete floor and an intercom system, the passage ran nearly 200 yards from a house on one side of a rusty metal fence, under two streets and an apartment complex, to emerge in an unassuming tract home in California.

Though more elaborate, the tunnel is not unlike the 15 others found during the 1990s, built by drug cartels. But everything in the world after Sept. 11, 2001, has taken on a different hue. U.S. officials fear that the tunnels could be used just as easily to smuggle terrorists and explosives as cocaine or illegal immigrants.

That confluence of worries forms the backdrop for a meeting today in Texas between President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox and Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin. But where issues converge, the interests of the United States and its neighbors may not.
posted by tekrat to news at 9:08 A.M. EST     (1 Comment)

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Use of concrete in tunnels keeps water out and is good PR. There will be less chance of being identified later as "wet backs."
posted by Chaz at 03:16 P.M. EST on Wed Mar 23, 2005     #

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