Increased pressure on drug trafficking organizations and their traditional smuggling routes into the United States has led these groups to increase the construction and use of underground tunnels to bring narcotics into the country, U.S. officials said this week. Moreover, drug cartels are willing to invest more money and technology into constructing more sophisticated tunnels that are outpacing efforts to detect them, the officials told a Senate panel. “For example, we have information that the cartels are purchasing highly sophisticated…
Drug Smugglers Building More Tunnels Into U.S., Officials Say
Defense Daily Staff
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