Drug Wars

The Border Patrol Riverine Unit guard the waters in Texas.

The law enforcement tries to stop the onslaught of human trafficking and illegal drugs.

Officers of the United States Border Patrol chase cartel smugglers in Texas.

Cartels are turning to the manufacture of prescription drugs in Mexico.

The Rio Grande City Border Patrol chases suspects escaping persecution.

Border Patrol K9 units are highly trained at detecting illicit drugs and human traffic victims, and are key members of US efforts along the border. Inside a tractor-trailer, one of these dogs finds a huge score: over two million dollars worth of heroin.

The Border Patrol hunts for illegal narcotics which are smuggled over from Mexico.

Border units track down boars which are loaded with illegal aliens and drugs.

Arrests spike along the border wall as residents of India and Pakistan leap over, right into the hands of the border patrol. Other teams investigate new smuggling tunnels, a cartel tactic that could undermine the new border wall prototypes being tested.

The Missing Migrant program is a Border Patrol-led effort to reunite families with their deceased loved ones.

For the first time, camera crews are allowed inside the Foreign Operations Branch Mission, a joint partnership between US authorities and Mexican Federales. Their goal: to take down the biggest threats posed by Mexican cartels along the US/Mexico border.

The Foreign Operations Branch and other units partner together to apprehend convicted felons and smugglers before they can rejoin other cartel operatives.