Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
For decades now, we've heard about tunnels, used to smuggle drugs - and sometimes people- underneath the US-Mexico border.
Just this past weekend, 30 people were detained in San Diego. Authorities suspect they had been smuggled through a tunnel.
Border and Customs Protection is still investigating.
But here's the twist.
Most of them were Chinese Nationals.
Mike Unzueta is a retired special agent for Homeland Security, in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations.
He's now a consultant with Frontier Solutions, a crisis management firm.
And he knows his smuggling tunnels. He spoke with Take Two's A Martinez.