Mexico drug smuggling tunnel

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This is one way drugs enter the United States. Put drugs in one end in Tijuana, Mexico, and zoom through the tunnel to San Diego, California. Mexican authorities found this tunnel in November 2011. Dozens of others have popped up over the years.

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