Tunnels used for human trafficking / Courtesy Telemundo.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced that it had discovered nearly 40 secret tunnels used for irregular immigration flows into the U.S. following investigations and inspections along the border with Mexico. bottom.

According to reports from authorities, these tunnels were discovered between 2017 and 2021 during Donald Trump’s presidency.

Construction of these tunnels should have started when former President Trump decided to extend the border wall to about 10 meters high and hundreds of kilometers long.

During the expansion of the wall, the Immigration Service would have informed the former president that this building may have violations such as building tunnels, but believes the wall has innovative anti-tunnel technology. so he wouldn’t mind. , according to information collected on the Telemundo network.

The tunnel was mainly used by coyotes. Coyotes were responsible for bringing immigrants to the mainland United States through these constructions. This is a human trafficking mechanism that coyotes have used for years in various locations in the border regions.