article_snippet.sent: Mexican soldiers uncovered the suspected drugs tunnel  and arrested nine people before nine people managed to dig under the U.S. border and successfully into American territory.
article_snippet.sent: Mexican soldiers uncovered a trapdoor leading to a suspected drugs tunnel hidden inside your average wooden wardrobe .
article_snippet.sent: A Mexican official prepares to descend the 10 feet long ladder to enter the hidden tunnel in the border town of Tijuana .
article_snippet.sent: The site of the tunnel is estimated to be around seven miles by car from the official border crossing at San Ysidro, but is less than a mile as the crow flies from the U.S. border.
article_snippet.sent: When soldiers raided the property soldiers also reportedly seized 44 pounds of marijuana and a truck being used by the racket to move the excavated earth.
article_snippet.sent: the tunnel was said to be close to the Mexican air force installation as well as a regional federal police facility .
article_snippet.sent: Government officials have said that similar tunnels have also been used to smuggle migrants into the United States.
article_snippet.sent: Over the past decade, dozens of illegal tunnels have been found across the roughly 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border.
article_snippet.sent: A soldier examines the tunnel which already stretched some 500 feet from the property when A soldier was discovered by Mexican soldiers .
article_snippet.sent: Barrels containing dirt excavated to make way for the passageway were lined up ready to be emptied at the tunnels entrance .
article_snippet.sent: The property in Tijuana, close to the border, where the start of the tunnel was discovered by Mexican soldiers .
highlights_snippet.sent: Nine people have been arrested by soldiers after 500 feet long tunnel found under home in Tijuana, Mexico .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Underground tunnel was being built close to the Mexican border crossing near San Diego, California .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: in a bid to smuggle drugs covertly into the U.S. 