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Episode "Hidden Narcotics"

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  • The Secondary Inspection Area at the Port of Entry stands as an area in which border patrol agents can perform further checks of suspicious land vehicles. Agents here find carefully concealed drugs or even people that smugglers have attempted to transport into the United States.
  • Border patrol agents conduct a
  • The border fence at the San Ysidro port serves as the boundary between San Diego and Tijuana. At night, as at times when the skies are foggy, border patrol officers must take special precautions to carefully survey the area, since these are times when vision is less clear and smugglers are more likely to attempt to cross illegally.
  • Border patrol agents conduct a
  • A border patrol agent drives during a
  • The Secondary Inspection Area at the Port of Entry stands as an area in which border patrol agents can perform further checks of suspicious land vehicles. Agents here find carefully concealed drugs or even people that smugglers have attempted to transport into the United States.
  • The trunk of this vehicle contains bundles of drugs that a smuggler attempted to transport across the San Diego-Tijuana border.
  • The border fence at the San Ysidro port serves as the boundary between San Diego and Tijuana. At sunset, car traffic can be extremely slow as workers return from their commutes, with more than 17 million vehicles and 50 million people entering the U.S. in 2005 alone.
  • Illegal immigrants found attempting to cross the Tijuana-San Diego border wait inside the processing center. Between half and two-thirds of the illegal immigrants currently living in the United States are from Mexico.
  • Border patrol agents conduct a

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    The Secondary Inspection Area at the Port of Entry stands as an area in which border patrol agents can perform further checks of suspicious land vehicles. Agents here find carefully concealed drugs or even people that smugglers have attempted to transport into the United States.

  • 5024_BDR-hidden-narcotics_08_04700300

    Border patrol agents conduct a "fast boat drill" on the water near the San Diego-Tijuana border. In 2009, with heightened land enforcement fueling human smuggling by sea, the border patrol introduced this fast, 43-foot boat for pursuit of high-speed vehicles.

  • Hidden Narcotics 02

    The border fence at the San Ysidro port serves as the boundary between San Diego and Tijuana. At night, as at times when the skies are foggy, border patrol officers must take special precautions to carefully survey the area, since these are times when vision is less clear and smugglers are more likely to attempt to cross illegally.

  • Hidden Narcotics 09

    Border patrol agents conduct a "fast boat drill" on the water near the San Diego-Tijuana border. In 2009, with heightened land enforcement fueling human smuggling by sea, the border patrol introduced this fast, 43-foot boat for pursuit of high-speed vehicles.

  • 5024_BDR-hidden-narcotics_10_04700300

    A border patrol agent drives during a "fast boat drill" on the water near the San Diego-Tijuana border. In 2009, with heightened land enforcement fueling human smuggling by sea, the border patrol introduced this fast, 43-foot boat for pursuit of high-speed vehicles.

  • Hidden Narcotics 06

    The Secondary Inspection Area at the Port of Entry stands as an area in which border patrol agents can perform further checks of suspicious land vehicles. Agents here find carefully concealed drugs or even people that smugglers have attempted to transport into the United States.

  • 5024_BDR-hidden-narcotics_04_04700300

    The trunk of this vehicle contains bundles of drugs that a smuggler attempted to transport across the San Diego-Tijuana border.

  • 5024_BDR-hidden-narcotics_03_04700300

    The border fence at the San Ysidro port serves as the boundary between San Diego and Tijuana. At sunset, car traffic can be extremely slow as workers return from their commutes, with more than 17 million vehicles and 50 million people entering the U.S. in 2005 alone.

  • 5024_BDR-hidden-narcotics_07_04700300

    Illegal immigrants found attempting to cross the Tijuana-San Diego border wait inside the processing center. Between half and two-thirds of the illegal immigrants currently living in the United States are from Mexico.

  • 5024_BDR-hidden-narcotics_01_04700300

    Border patrol agents conduct a "fast boat drill" on the water near the San Diego-Tijuana border. In 2009, with heightened land enforcement fueling human smuggling by sea, the border patrol introduced this fast, 43-foot boat for pursuit of high-speed vehicles.

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