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Borderforce USA: The Bridges
28 bridges cross the notorious Rio Grande between Texas and Mexico, providing a gateway for legitimate goods and a lucrative pipeline for illegal contraband, weapons and drugs. Continues at the established South Texas locations, revisiting Laredo, Brownsville and Hidalgo while adding more coverage of the Colombia-Solidarity and Progreso international bridges.
Officers put their lives on the line when they transfer cartel members to the Mexican military authorities. A Police officer from Caracas, Venezuela, pleads for asylum in the United States, and a man who has been bar hopping on the other side of the river returns to the United States and finds his angry wife waiting for him.
A routine X ray reveals suspicious packages hidden inside the tyres of a pick up truck, and a specialized team is tasked with extracting the packages. Officers seize a shipment of marijuana worth about 50 million dollars. Barricades are erected on the Juarez Lincoln Bridge in an attempt to prevent illegal immigrants from forcing their way on to American soil.
A family forced out of Honduras by the gangs, seek asylum in America. At the World Trade Bridge officials search a cargo truck and find a large shipment of marijuana hidden in it, and in a surprise turn of events, on the Brownsville Gateway Bridge, an inspection of an SUV driven by a pregnant mother of two, appears to be a human smuggling operation.
A young boy arrives at one of the bridges, and his sorry hard luck story seems out of keeping with his new clothes and clean appearance, so Officers must investigate further. After way too much alcohol on an all day bar hop over the border, two sisters are detained after one of them makes the mistake of getting physical with a customs officer.
Hidalgo bridge is over run by asylum seekers trying to jump the queue, which forces officials to close the bridge. When two bags of sweets are found wrapped in a tarpaulin, Officers suspect something is amiss, and man from Cuba with mother in law problems, is politely informed that he has no grounds seeking asylum because of her.
Day trippers can buy prescription pills on the cheap in Mexico, resulting in a continual challenge for border officers. A new recruit looking for her first drugs seizure is rewarded with success when she stops an SUV heading for Atlanta, and elsewhere a suspected courier for one of the Mexican cartels, appears to be trying to smuggle 50,000 in cash out of the country.
A man taken by a Mexican drug cartel sprints across the bridge into America; at Progreso International Bridge, a lady is caught hiding anti-anxiety pills. / A refugee from Venezuela tells officers how she paid human traffickers to smuggle her to the Mexico-US border. In Laredo, an American couple are caught smuggling methamphetamine.
A man kidnapped by a drug cartel flees across the bridge into America and a rock band’s tour bus is found to be a front for an elaborate drug smuggling operation. / A family from Venezuela plead with officers to enter America. In Progreso, a suspected drug dealer is caught smuggling pills in his underpants.
Officers are faced with a harrowing situation in the middle of the bridge, and millions of dollars worth of drugs are found in a pick-up truck. / More than 100 boxes full of drugs are discovered inside an unlikely vehicle at the World Trade Bridge. In Progreso, a suspected gang member attempts to cross into the US.
Two teenage girls are caught smuggling anti anxiety pills, an strange vehicle is found to contain many boxes of drugs and a suspected gang member tries to cross over. In a pickup truck, a high tech coding system, suspected of hiding a drug concealment, poses a challenge for officers.
