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Agents prepare to enter a drug tunnel found in a warehouse in Otay Mesa, California. The tunnel, which led from the United States to a small business building in Tijuana, was the most sophisticated tunnel ever found in California and included an elevator, wood flooring an lighting. (AFP Photo)
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View of a trans-border tunnel and wagons found near the airport of Tijuana, Baja California State, in the Mexican border with San Diego in the US. Mexican authorities have unearthed a 600-meter (1,800-foot) drug smuggling tunnel beneath the US border, the second such find in the same area this month. (AFP Photo)
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View from inside a tunnel recently found in the northern border city of Tijuana, Mexico. A day earlier, the tunnel was discovered by US authorities in San Diego's Otay Mesa area, the latest in a spate of secret passages found to smuggle drugs from Mexico. This tunnel is a 600-yard passage linking warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana and is equipped with lighting and ventilation. (AP Photo/Alex Cossio)
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A Mexican army soldier stands next to an elevator shaft that lowers into a tunnel in the northern border city of Tijuana, Mexico. US authorities said they discovered a new cross-border tunnel, the latest in a spate of secret passages found to smuggle drugs from Mexico. The tunnel was found in San Diego's Otay Mesa area, a warehouse district across the border from Tijuana, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo)
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A news photographer walks inside a tunnel in the northern border city of Tijuana, Mexico. The tunnel was discovered by US authorities in San Diego's Otay Mesa area, the latest in a spate of secret passages found to smuggle drugs from Mexico. This tunnel is a 600-yard passage linking warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana and is equipped with lighting and ventilation. (AP Photo)
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An opening leading to a warehouse through a drug tunnel found is seen on November 30, 2011 in Otay Mesa, California. The tunnel, which led from the United States to a small business building in Tijuana, was the most sophisticated tunnel ever found in California and inluded an elevator, wood flooring an lighting. (AFP Photo)
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An investigator combs through a drug tunnel found in a warehouse in Otay Mesa, California. The tunnel, which led from the United States to a small business building in Tijuana, was the most sophisticated tunnel ever found in California and included an elevator, wood flooring an lighting. (AFP Photo)
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