The man who smuggled cocaine into the city ______
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Many ways across: The border fence isn't the only thing to patrol. In San Diego, border agents also monitor the water for drug smuggling. (Nick Oza/USA TODAY NETWORK)
In the middle of a peaceful green valley where the salt air drifts in clean and fresh from the ocean, it can be hard to remember the chaos.
Drug shootouts. Smugglers scrambling down the canyons. When congressmen wanted tours of the area, they’d have to see it from the window of a helicopter because Border Patrol couldn’t guarantee their safety.
Then came the fences. One perimeter, then a secondary. The fences helped the Border Patrol reclaim this little sliver of the country.
But the fences did not stop the drug smuggling. With a near-infinite supply of money and resources on the other side, drugs continue to move under, around and through anything the country builds.
No wall will stop them.
Drugs: An endless fight: DEA and Customs and Border Patrol work to stop drugs coming from Mexico by land, sea, and even by tunnel. (USA TODAY NETWORK)
San Diego
Drug smuggling, and the endless battle to stop it
Gustavo Solis | The Desert Sun
USA TODAY NETWORK
Mike Unzueta remembers.
“It was the Wild West,” the retired federal criminal investigator says.
He’s standing in San Diego’s International Park, the smell of the ocean in the air and the sound of crashing waves in the background.
Going under: Border Patrol Agent Lance LeNoir and his "tunnel rats" begin a tour of the Galvez tunnel. (Nick Oza/USA TODAY NETWORK)