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'Tunnel Rats' Police Makeshift Crossings on U.S.-Mexico Border

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Jun. 24, 2009
NOGALES, Ariz. -- They call themselves the Tunnel Rats. Trained in close-quarter combat, psychologically certified to work in confined spaces and armed to the teeth, these four-member teams of Border Patrol agents monitor an elaborate underground warren of dark and dangerous storm drains that cri...
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