Border Wars (2010)

Season 4

Border Wars is an American documentary television series on the National Geographic Channel. The program follows agents of the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security as they investigate and apprehend illegal aliens, drug smugglers, and other criminals violating immigration to the United States and customs laws. The series also follows Air Interdiction Agents, and Marine Interdiction Agents who patrol along the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as southern Florida and Puerto Rico.

Released Jan. 10, 2010 Episode 60 min 14+

Genres: Crime, Documentary, Reality, Reality TV

Keywords: imdb.ajo-arizona, imdb.arizona-desert, imdb.arizona-territory, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.arizona

Network: National Geographic

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb

7.2

/228/

Trakt

/36/

TMDb

/2/

S4E1 - Bullets Over the Border

Agents put themselves in harm’s way searching for armed smugglers fleeing a shoot-out with the Mexican military. Once at the riverbanks, they find a suspected smuggler who has been shot five times. Their mission quickly changes as they rush to save the man’s life.

July 9, 2012, midnight

S4E2 - Meth Mobile

Drug smuggling has reached “Texas-sized” proportions in the Rio Grande Valley. A canine unit detects a suspicious vehicle coming in from Mexico, and agents discover a massive quantity of methamphetamine concealed within.

July 16, 2012, midnight

S4E3 - Contraband Corridor

Law enforcement battles to intercept the massive flow of illicit traffic moving through the Rio Grande Valley. Agents in McAllen, Texas, track a group of illegal immigrants in the dark and find themselves outnumbered in a large field.

July 23, 2012, midnight

S4E4 - Rio Grande Reefer

The Rio Grande River serves as a highway for illegal traffic and dangerous crossings. As the Department of Homeland Security’s surveillance intensifies, powerful drug cartels and human smugglers are trying more desperate tactics.

July 30, 2012, midnight

S4E5 - Hidden Tunnel

In the southern border towns of Douglas and Nogales, Ariz., agents uncover new and more cunning methods smugglers create to avoid detection, including a drug tunnel under the border.

Aug. 6, 2012, midnight

S4E6 - Cartel Cash Stash

Along the southern Arizona border at the port of entry, agents detain two families within a 24-hour period, driving similar SUVs and carrying a combined total of nearly $1 million in cash and drugs.

Aug. 13, 2012, midnight

S4E7 - Teenage Drug Mules

A Blackhawk helicopter leads ground agents on an epic chase after an illegal immigrant through treacherous mountains near Douglas, Ariz. A live surveillance camera alerts Border Patrol agents to a known fence coyote who tries to guide illegal immigrants into downtown Nogales.

Aug. 20, 2012, midnight

S4E8 - Tunnel Smoke-out

Border Patrol agents cut off a getaway car as it tries to flee the scene of a drug drop in ranchland east of Nogales, Ariz. Agents arrest the driver and seize the drugs, then pursue the smugglers.

Aug. 27, 2012, midnight

S4E9 - Midnight Drug Trap

Downtown, Border Patrol and ICE agents discover a major drug-running tunnel and suspected smugglers may still be inside. With cartels watching their every move, they must risk their lives to map and destroy it.

Sept. 3, 2012, midnight

S4E10 - Cocaine Paradise

In Puerto Rico, agents keep a high-value drug seizure from South America secure as they transport it back to San Juan. They also use a DASH 8 plane and radar to find and seize a small drug-running boat in the dangerous Mona Passage.

Sept. 10, 2012, midnight

S4E11 - Cocaine Dump Truck

Agents in Puerto Rico enter one of San Juan’s most notorious housing projects for an undercover “buy and bust” operation to intercept a dump truck full of cocaine, and race to find illegal immigrants who have landed on a secluded beach.

Sept. 17, 2012, midnight

S4E12 - Cash in the Tank

When the Coast Guard rescues Cuban refugees from a remote island in the Mona Passage, Customs and Border Protection agents must race to intercept them and verify their identities.

Sept. 24, 2012, midnight

S4E13 - Traffic

Illegal traffic between the Rio Grande and the Falfurrias Checkpoint in South Texas.

Nov. 14, 2012, midnight

S4E14 - War Games

Tactical cat-and-mouse games used in the war on drugs.

Nov. 21, 2012, midnight

Network: National Geographic

Episode Runtime: 60 min.

Season Runtime: 60 min.

Released: Jan. 10, 2010

Last Air Date: April 15, 2015, midnight

Status: Canceled

Certification: TV-14 / 14+

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