(Image source from: Migrants apprehended at tunnel end in Arizona})

Undocumented migrants were apprehended at  Nogales, Sonora when they tried to sneak into Arizona through a tunnel on Friday. At the same place the federal law-enforcement team had earlier arrested three people with 636 pound of marijuana and half-pound of heroin.

On Feb. 10 authorities had found a 481-foot tunnel that opened at a house in Nogales and was used for crossing the border. And after five days the tunnel was again used for crossing border by 13 undocumented migrants into Arizona.

The tunnel ended into the house and as soon as the migrants came out they were apprehended by Border Patrol agents.

Recently, reporters of Nogales International, the newspaper that was the first to reveal the border crossing through the tunnel, had said that the house’s front door was found open a day after the initial arrest with no sight of any agents.

After Friday's arrest  Border Patrol spokesman Vic Brabble stated that not seeing the agents does not mean that the the house was not being monitored. He added that the house was under constant surveillance.

(Picture Source: dw.de)

(AW: Pratima Tigga)