2019

Summary This 10-part documentary series follows the works of Customs and Border Protection Officers on the 28 international bridges that connect the United States and Mexico. View more details

Documentary

2019

Borderforce USA: The Bridges

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Robert Glenister Steve French

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 31, 2018

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Laredo, Texas, USA

Production companies : Stampede

Summary This 10-part documentary series follows the works of Customs and Border Protection Officers on the 28 international bridges that connect the United States and Mexico. View more details

Documentary

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 31, 2018

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Laredo, Texas, USA

Production companies : Stampede

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 2018

Deadly Secret

At Laredo Port of Entry an Officer checks a bag that seems to be too heavy for its size. On Laredo Rail Bridge entry Officers find a suspected infestation of invasive insects and at the Immigration Centre they find a stolen passport.

Episode 2 • Dec 31, 2018

Cartel Ambush

A pickup truck with a suspect spare tyre is checked. A van sent back from Mexico for a jammed door, rouses suspicions, a pedestrian falls foul of the controlled substances laws, and the Agricultural team pulls up a moonshine transport.

Episode 3 • Dec 31, 2018

Suspicious Travelers

Eight new recruits join the border force at Laredo. An officer checks a vehicle with fresh sealer in it, while others attend to asylum seekers and immigration hopefuls on the Gateway to the Americas Bridge. The truck entry point has a very busy day.

Episode 4 • Dec 31, 2018

Cocaine Crackdown

The rookies try to balance how little or how much to check in each case, all while being watched by cartel spotters, trying to gain information to defeat the law. A truck driver raises suspicions, and drunk pedestrians cause concern.

Episode 5 • Dec 31, 2018

The Decoy

A canine unit alerts to a vehicle, and then it is all hands on deck for a full check, and later, a vehicle at remote Laredo Colombia Solidarity Bridge shows up suspicious items in the fuel tank, and the hunt is on for hidden trap doors.

Episode 6 • Dec 31, 2018

Five Million Dollar Meth Bust

A vehicle fuel tank that seems to have been recently worked on attracts attention. At Brownsville Matamoros Bridge, pedestrian foot traffic checks turn up a suspicious person, who is detained for investigation.

Episode 7 • Dec 31, 2018

2,000 Miles from Home

Cocaine was once the most smuggled drug, but in recent years, it has been replaced by the cartels most profitable product Meth Amphetamine. It comes in all forms but officers are stunned when they discover over 2 million dollars worth of the drug mixed in with household paint and bottles of beer, and a young person far from home seeks asylum.

Episode 8 • Dec 31, 2018

5,000 Rounds of Ammunition

Customs and Border Protection officers uncover 5,000 rounds of ammunition being smuggled across Hidalgo Bridge into Mexico, while in Laredo, an elite team prepares for the extradition of a high value target across the bridge.

Episode 9 • Dec 31, 2018

Escaping the Cartel

Officers note a trend of drugs hidden behind the dashboards of cars. An ominous symbol suggests it is the deadly new drug, Fentanyl. In Laredo a family seek asylum when her eldest son is recruited into the notorious Los Zetas cartel.

Episode 10 • Dec 31, 2018

Hidden Cocaine

A new recruit, just out of training, makes her mark when she finds cocaine hidden in a car. The Customs and Border Protection officers are on the lookout for a kidnapped child, who police fear has been smuggled over the border into Mexico.

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