Border Force: America's Gatekeepers

A shipment of cardboard packaging hides a deadly secret; heroin disguised as a computer laptop baffles the world’s most advanced narcotic detection device.

Officers are on high alert for an ambush as they transfer a Sicario over one of the 28 border bridges and into the custody of the Mexico military.

Officers are suspicious when an elderly couple arrive from Mexico with five suitcases but no clothes.

Officers in Brownsville process an American citizen who crossed over the bridge 20 years ago – and discover the reason he didn’t want to come back.

Officers become suspicious when they pull over a businessman from Mexico who is making a rare journey to the United States in a brand new car.

The Mexican drug cartels have been fighting a bloody war for control of the most profitable smuggling routes into the United States for nearly 20 years.

A teenager from the Dominican Republic who has traveled 2,000 miles to the United States border in the back of a truck pleads his case for asylum.

In Hidalgo, a young woman from Cuba crosses the bridge in the hope of being granted political asylum in America while officers in Laredo get a surprise when they stop three biology students.

Officers think they have spotted a trend when they seize drugs from behind the dashboards of two cars. One load has an ominous symbol that suggests it is the deadly new drug, Fentanyl, that is being concealed.

A new recruit fresh out of training school makes her mark when she uncovers 12 kilos of cocaine hidden in a car that she has stopped on one of the bridges.