Work is underway to close off a man-made tunnel linking El Paso to Juárez at the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said.
“The government of the United States initiated the covering of the man-made tunnel that they found last week,” Claudio Herrera, a Border Patrol spokesperson, said. “It is going to be covered by concrete the access portion of it in the United States.”
Several Border Patrol agents and other men were seen working Thursday near the access point to the tunnel on U.S. territory. They were using sacks of concrete mix for the project…