Thirty people, including the Chinese nationals, were taken into custody and will be questioned about how they arrived stateside since tunnel…
Border Patrol agents apprehended 30 illegal immigrants, including nearly two dozen Chinese nationals, who entered the U. S. from Mexico through an underground tunnel near San Diego Saturday morning.
Agents uncovered the cross-border smuggling tunnel near the Otay Mesa port of entry early Saturday. Shortly after making the discovery, agents came across a large group of people who « had apparently just been smuggled into the U. S., » a U. S. Customs and Border Protection news release stated.
Border Patrol found a ladder inside the ground tunnel and concluded its northern exit was just north of the secondary fence near the port of entry.
Twenty-three of the illegal immigrants are from China, and the other seven are from Mexico.
