Tunnel Network in Gaza: Does California Have A Risk?

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U.S. Customs Border Patrol & Tunnel Task Force protect our borders & uncover tunnels; thus, preventing a similar infiltration as the Palestinian areas of Gaza by Hamas using tunnels.

What Lies Beneath Investigating Arizona's illicit subterranean passageways with Border Patrol's Tunnel Team The Nogales Tunnel Task Force, headed by Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was established in 2011 and is made up of personnel from CBP, the Drug Enforcement Administration; and state and local agencies. Before the task force was created, the Nogales Station had a tunnel team to deal with illegal entries through drainage and infrastructure and via illicit tunnels in the Nogales area. The Border Patrol’s Nogales tunnel team works closely with the Nogales Tunnel Task Force.


February 2017: Written testimony of CBP Paul Beeson, Director of DHS Joint Task Force – West for a House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security hearing titled “A Dangerous and Sophisticated Adversary: The Threat to the Homeland Posed by Cartel Operations”

  • When tunnels are detected and investigated, each U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) sector follows established protocols for coordination, confirmation, assessment, investigation, exploitation, and remediation. The USBP is an active participant in ICE Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) tunnel task forces.
  • Since agents discovered the first illicit tunnel in 1990 in Douglas, Arizona, there have been 195 i1licit cross-border tunnels discovered - 194 along the Southwest border and one discovered along the Northern border near Lynden, Washington

According to a New York Post 2018 article — more than 200 cross-border tunnels have been discovered since CBP was formed in 2003.

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