Mexican National Guard Finds 'Suspicious Underground Structure' Close To Cross-Border Smuggling Tunnel

Mexican National Guard officials found what they described as a "suspicious underground structure" leading to the banks of the Rio Grande, according to a new report.

Border Report detailed that the structure had its entry point at a boulevard in the town of Juarez, its exit on the Mexican levee of the river.

However, authorities told the outlet that they then determined the structure was an old storm drainage pipe. They didn't disclose whether they would seal it.

U.S. Border Patrol, in turn, characterized the discovery as a "false alarm" and clarified it was not another tunnel.

The structure was located just 100 yards from a structure that was indeed a tunnel discovered earlier this year.

The Department of Homeland Security is set to spend $100 million to locate such structures, with the contract being managed by Customs and Border Protection and focused on high-risk areas of the southwest border and California.

The funds are set to be allocated in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, with work expected to be completed by the end of next year.

The system, according to Govconwire, is designed to monitor underground activity and identify potential connections where a tunnel could cross or has crossed the border.

Several tunnels have been located throughout southern U.S. over the past years. The latest one, although unfinished, was found underneath a vape shop in Texas.

Officials told NewsNation in late September that the 25-foot-deep tunnel was located inside a vape shop in Laredo while authorities where conducting an operation targeting such shops across the country.

In late June, two people were indicted in an investigation regarding a tunnel connecting Mexico's Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, that was found earlier this year.