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Episode "Smuggler's Tunnel"

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  • View from the side of an ATV. Agents riding ATVs can quickly navigate across the desert while on patrol. Smugglers have no success in outrunning an ATV.
  • Agents in the desert at sunset. Whether it be human trafficking or drug trafficking, border agents remain ready to stop organized crime.
  • Men eating and drinking after a service at the Aid Center for Deported Immigrants. The center can accommodate people for just a few hours but it is the only relief many will get before a long journey home.
  • Men eating and drinking after the service at the Aid Center for Deported Immigrants. Some of these people were extorted for money. Others saw people who died trying to cross the border.
  • The entrance to an underground tunnel. Customs and Border protection agents find more tunnels dug by cartels now than ever before.
  • An armed agent climbing through an underground tunnel. Four feet underneath Nogales, Arizona, Border Patrol agents rush to secure a drug smuggling tunnel.
  • Father Sean Carroll giving food to people after his service. A thousand people crowd into the center each week, to get help before moving on.
  • An agent sitting on an ATV loaded with confiscated bundles of smuggled goods. Smugglers regularly attempt to carry marijuana into the USA, and carry drug payments and weapons into Mexico.
  • Men sitting at a service at the Aid Center for Deported Immigrants.
  • An agent on an All-terrain vehicle (ATV). Customs and Border protection agents use many methods of transportation when patrolling the US and Mexico border. The ATV is often used for crossing the desert terrain.
  • Immigration center in Nogales, Mexico.

  • Border Wars Smugglers Tunnel 04

    View from the side of an ATV. Agents riding ATVs can quickly navigate across the desert while on patrol. Smugglers have no success in outrunning an ATV.

  • 6104_Border-Wars-Smugglers-Tunnel-05_04700300

    Agents in the desert at sunset. Whether it be human trafficking or drug trafficking, border agents remain ready to stop organized crime.

  • 6104_Border-Wars-Smugglers-Tunnel-08_04700300

    Men eating and drinking after a service at the Aid Center for Deported Immigrants. The center can accommodate people for just a few hours but it is the only relief many will get before a long journey home.

  • 6104_Border-Wars-Smugglers-Tunnel-10_04700300

    Men eating and drinking after the service at the Aid Center for Deported Immigrants. Some of these people were extorted for money. Others saw people who died trying to cross the border.

  • Border Wars Smugglers Tunnel 11

    The entrance to an underground tunnel. Customs and Border protection agents find more tunnels dug by cartels now than ever before.

  • 6104_Border-Wars-Smugglers-Tunnel-01_04700300

    An armed agent climbing through an underground tunnel. Four feet underneath Nogales, Arizona, Border Patrol agents rush to secure a drug smuggling tunnel.

  • 6104_Border-Wars-Smugglers-Tunnel-09_04700300

    Father Sean Carroll giving food to people after his service. A thousand people crowd into the center each week, to get help before moving on.

  • 6104_Border-Wars-Smugglers-Tunnel-02_04700300

    An agent sitting on an ATV loaded with confiscated bundles of smuggled goods. Smugglers regularly attempt to carry marijuana into the USA, and carry drug payments and weapons into Mexico.

  • 6104_Border-Wars-Smugglers-Tunnel-07_04700300

    Men sitting at a service at the Aid Center for Deported Immigrants.

  • Border Wars Smugglers Tunnel 03

    An agent on an All-terrain vehicle (ATV). Customs and Border protection agents use many methods of transportation when patrolling the US and Mexico border. The ATV is often used for crossing the desert terrain.

  • 6104_Border-Wars-Smugglers-Tunnel-06_04700300

    Immigration center in Nogales, Mexico.

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