Border Force: America's Gatekeepers - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
In this episode, a shipment of cardboard packaging hides a deadly secret; heroin disguised as a computer laptop baffles the world's most advanced narcotic detection device while the diligence of agriculture specialists pays off – and saves America's forestry from a potentially devastating insect infestation.
Episode 2
Officers are on high alert for a cartel ambush as they transfer a Sicario over one of the 28 border bridges and into the custody of the Mexico military. A random inspection of a pick-up truck reveals 32 kilogrammes of narcotics, while a man, his aluminium shed and a broken key brings chaos – then smiles – in Laredo.
Episode 3
Officers are suspicious when an elderly couple arrive from Mexico with five suitcases but no clothes, and a truck carrying garden furniture has something extra in the load.
Episode 4
Officers pull over a businessman from Mexico who is making a rare journey to the US in a brand new car and a pedestrian gets more than he bargains for when he is mistaken for a wanted man.
Episode 5
Officers in Brownsville process an American citizen who crossed over the Rio Grande 20 years ago - and discover the reason he didn't want to come back.
Episode 6
A Cuban woman crosses the bridge in the hope of being granted political asylum in America, while officers in Laredo stop three students carrying something unusual in their car.
Episode 7
Customs and Border Protection officers are stunned when they discover more than $2million of cocaine mixed in with gallons of household paint and bottles of beer.
Episode 8
Vigilant Customs and Border Protection officers uncover 5,000 rounds of ammunition being smuggled across Hidalgo Bridge into Mexico.
Episode 9
A new recruit fresh out of training school makes her mark when she uncovers 12kg of cocaine hidden in a car that she has stopped on one of the bridges.
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