A border first: Smugglers buy U.S. land, build house to hide tunnel, feds say

CNN reports:

For the first time on the border, drug traffickers allegedly bought U.S. property for the sole purpose of building a house to conceal the end of a 415-yard smuggling tunnel from Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.

Four people were arrested this week in connection with a raid on the tunnel underneath a three-bedroom house in Calexico, California, that sits about 300 yards north of the international line, authorities said.

The tunnel entrance was inside a restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

It's probably time to take border security seriously.