Borderforce USA: The Bridges

A shipment of cardboard packaging hides a deadly secret. Heroin disguised as a computer laptop baffles the world's most advanced narcotic detection device. The diligence of agriculture specialists pays off and saves America's forestry from a potentially devastating insect infestation.

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. A broken key brings chaos then smiles to the Gateway to the Americas Bridge in Laredo.

Officers are suspicious when an elderly couple arrive from Mexico with five suitcases but no clothes. On the World Trade Bridge, an X ray of a truck hauling garden furniture reveals something more might be in the load and in Laredo, officers help a woman and her child fleeing cartel violence in Central America.

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.

Officers intercept an arsenal of weapons being smuggled into Mexico. A consignment of Fentanyl is discovered in a freezer.

Officers discover the fuel tanks on a truck are full of liquid meth. Three men wearing identical clothing cause suspicion. A man is caught smuggling reptiles.

A woman is suspected of smuggling someone else's baby over the border. Drugs are found hidden in a consignment of carrots. A pill smuggler is caught following an earlier tip-off.

A large shipment of fake fentanyl pills is intercepted. An automatic rifle with its ammunition is found inside a loudspeaker. A woman who was dealing drugs for her boyfriend is captured. Police officers try to save a man who is overdosing.

A truck is stopped and inside it they find a shipment of wet wipes, but upon closer inspection they find cocaine hidden. A US citizen is caught with thousands of Tramadol tablets hidden in his hand luggage among bags of dried fruit.

A huge shipment of cocaine is found hidden in the floor of a truck. A young man tries to enter the United States to enroll in school. A woman is caught smuggling fentanyl pills, and a drunken couple refuse to pay their fine for illegal avocados.

Millions of dollars-worth of marijuana is found hidden in a shipment of matresses, and officers detain a mother and daughter who've been smoking meth.

A man wanted for murder is apprehended at the border. Officers discover more than 80 kilos of cocaine hidden inside a tractor trailer.

Officers investigate a collector travelling with parts of a space rocket, and 380 kilograms of crystal meth is discovered in a shipment of limes.

Officers in Eagle Pass seize over 15 kilograms of heroin and unveil a new cartel drug-smuggling tactic, and a Mexican family in Laredo makes a plea for humanitarian parole.

Officers hand over a convict to Mexican authorities in the middle of the Juarez Lincoln bridge, and a man drops a marijuana joint on a customs floor in Progreso.

A man fears for his life after being stopped by a cartel in Laredo, clubbers in Detroit are found with drugs disguised in liquid, and officers stop a shipment of frozen rats.

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