Sheriff Mark Lamb
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Well, Lucas, great question.
It's not just a single tunnel.
It's many tunnels.
The cartels are flush with cash.
They have the ability to build all sorts of stuff.
You see a lot of tunnels down in places like Nogales, Arizona.
And the reason I mention Nogales, not that Nogales is, it's just that Nogales is right on the Mexico border.
So on one side of Nogales is 50,000 residents or 30 to 50,000 residents.
And on this other side is 500,000 residents in Mexico.
And literally, you can have a house here or a business here, a road of 15 feet, the wall, a 15 foot road and businesses right there again.
So within 30, 40 feet, you have...
businesses or houses in Mexico and businesses and houses in Arizona.
And so a lot of times those tunnels will go from one factory in Mexico and then pop up in somebody's business or somebody's home on the US side.
There's tunnels out in the middle of nowhere too, in the deserts.
But right now the tunnels, they don't need to use them as much because the borders are wide open.
And so they're pushing people through more conventional routes as opposed to the tunnels.
But they still exist, and whenever they find them, they usually destroy them.
I mean, it's always changing.
I mean, look, I think that you probably got hundreds, I don't know.
Hundreds of tunnels?