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Bullets Over the Border
Agents put themselves in harm’s way searching for armed smugglers fleeing a shoot-out with the Mexican military. Once at the riverbanks, they find a suspected smuggler who has been shot five times. Their mission quickly changes as they rush to save the man’s life.
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Meth Mobile
Drug smuggling has reached “Texas-sized” proportions in the Rio Grande Valley. A canine unit detects a suspicious vehicle coming in from Mexico, and agents discover a massive quantity of methamphetamine concealed within.
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Contraband Corridor
Law enforcement battles to intercept the massive flow of illicit traffic moving through the Rio Grande Valley. Agents in McAllen, Texas, track a group of illegal immigrants in the dark and find themselves outnumbered in a large field.
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Rio Grande Reefer
The Rio Grande River serves as a highway for illegal traffic and dangerous crossings. As the Department of Homeland Security’s surveillance intensifies, powerful drug cartels and human smugglers are trying more desperate tactics.
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Hidden Tunnel
In the southern border towns of Douglas and Nogales, Ariz., agents uncover new and more cunning methods smugglers create to avoid detection, including a drug tunnel under the border.
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Cartel Cash Stash
Along the southern Arizona border at the port of entry, agents detain two families within a 24-hour period, driving similar SUVs and carrying a combined total of nearly $1 million in cash and drugs.
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Teenage Drug Mules
A Blackhawk helicopter leads ground agents on an epic chase after an illegal immigrant through treacherous mountains near Douglas, Ariz. A live surveillance camera alerts Border Patrol agents to a known fence coyote who tries to guide illegal immigrants into downtown Nogales.
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Tunnel Smoke-out
Border Patrol agents cut off a getaway car as it tries to flee the scene of a drug drop in ranchland east of Nogales, Ariz. Agents arrest the driver and seize the drugs, then pursue the smugglers.
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Midnight Drug Trap
Downtown, Border Patrol and ICE agents discover a major drug-running tunnel and suspected smugglers may still be inside. With cartels watching their every move, they must risk their lives to map and destroy it.
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Cocaine Paradise
In Puerto Rico, agents keep a high-value drug seizure from South America secure as they transport it back to San Juan. They also use a DASH 8 plane and radar to find and seize a small drug-running boat in the dangerous Mona Passage.
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Cocaine Dump Truck
Agents in Puerto Rico enter one of San Juan’s most notorious housing projects for an undercover “buy and bust” operation to intercept a dump truck full of cocaine, and race to find illegal immigrants who have landed on a secluded beach.
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Cash in the Tank
When the Coast Guard rescues Cuban refugees from a remote island in the Mona Passage, Customs and Border Protection agents must race to intercept them and verify their identities.
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Traffic
Illegal traffic between the Rio Grande and the Falfurrias Checkpoint in South Texas.
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War Games
Tactical cat-and-mouse games used in the war on drugs.