Brownsville POE, USA: CBP Officer Gonzalez holds up one of the packages found. All in all they found three packages of cocaine with a total of 6.52 Kg of cocaine.
Nogales-Deconcini, Arizona, POE: U.S. Border Patrol officers start tearing open the roof of a suspected vehicle. The entire roof of the car is stuffed with wrapped Tupperware packages.
San Diego, CA, USA: 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 on an ATVs survey the international boundary that separates San Diego from Tijuana. This San Ysidro border crossing is the busiest in the world, with over 40 million people entering the U.S. through this port in 2005 alone.
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA: A fence crafted from an old military landing mat separates Tijuana from San Diego. The San Ysidro border crossing is the busiest in the world, with over 40 million people entering the U.S. through the port in 2005 alone.
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA: A border patrol agent on an ATV surveys the international boundary that separates San Diego from Tijuana. This San Ysidro border crossing is the busiest in the world, with over 40 million people entering the U.S. through this port in 2005 alone.
El Paso, TX: Officer Melano looking at the underside of a car that is being searched. Smugglers use many different methods to hide contraband such as marijuana and other illegal drugs.
Nogales-Deconcini, Arizona, POE: Officers remove over a dozen containers and throw them onto a holding cart. When they open up the containers and notice the geological crystal formation they confirm it is definitely crystal meth.
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA: 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.
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA: A group of border patrol agents survey the area near the San Ysidro crossing, the international boundary that separates San Diego from Tijuana. The more experience the agents acquire, the easier it becomes for them to determine which vehicles are smugglers hiding both illegal immigrants and people.
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA: A border patrol agent on an ATV surveys the international boundary that separates San Diego from Tijuana. This San Ysidro border crossing is the busiest in the world, with over 40 million people entering the U.S. through this port in 2005 alone.
San Diego, CA, USA: The border fence at the San Ysidro port serves as the boundary 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 US in 2005 alone.
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA: An Air and Marine border patrol agent prepares to board his blackhawk plane. The agent is one of thousands working to protect the San Diego-Tijuana border, one of the largest crossing areas, from illegal smuggling.
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA: 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.
DrogenschmuggelUS Border Patrol Marine Unit patrols the waters off the coast of Puerto RicoBild: © National Geographic / Kevin Cunningham
Update "Silo": Startdatum und Trailer für Staffel 3 des Sci-Fi-Hits enthüllt
