Border Wars

2010 • National Geographic Channel
4.4
158 reviews
TV-14
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Season 1 episodes (5)

1 Last Defense
1/18/10
Border Patrol Agents William Ortiz and Eduardo Berlanga intercept a pickup truck packed with people who have illegally crossed the border. The situation heats up when they find two young twin girls and a distrustful father.
2 City Under Siege
2/1/10
A special undercover group shuts down a house in Nogales, the quarters of suspected illegal immigrants. The agents are faced with the challenge of singling out the human smugglers, or "coyotes," and getting these suspected criminals off the streets.
3 Dead of Night
1/11/10
Aviation Enforcement Pilot John Manheimer and his Black Hawk team struggle to track down and stop suspected illegal border crossers and drug smugglers in the rugged mountain terrain of the Sonoran Desert.
4 Border Wars - The Front Lines
1/25/10
Season-only
Officer Hector Navarro stops a silver pickup truck at the Nogales port of entry. When suspicion prompts a canine sniff for narcotics a cleverly hidden trove of heroin is uncovered - breaking an all-time record for drug busts at this port of entry.
5 No End in Sight
1/10/10
National Geographic goes inside the US-Mexico border with unprecedented access to the growing arsenal of high tech cameras, ground radar, and skilled trackers who are faced with the challenge of controlling the desert every day.

About this show

National Geographic goes inside the world of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for an unprecedented look at their efforts to prevent illegal immigration and drug smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border.

From the inhospitable desert wilderness to the underground smuggling tunnels, Border Wars follows the chases, rescues and busts, and the agents and officers who use every means available to track illegal entrants in the unending quest to secure the border.

Ratings and reviews

4.4
158 reviews
A Google user
July 13, 2012
I am going to hate myself for saying what I have to say on this topic, however, it needs to be said.I am a christian person, but, I will never, ever, understand why Mexicans do not wish to stay in their own country and develop it so that it has the kinds of resources that they long to have from the United States. Our country did not have the resources in the early stages of it's youth. It took a lot of hardwork, determination and people from various walks of life and education. They should stay in Mexico.
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jalisquillo Gonzalez
October 5, 2014
No matter what happens in the border there will always be illegals and drug smuggling this will never stop its a big money business for cartels and for the US government... He gets a real big piece of it too and imagine if there where no drugs and illegals coming in ,no more border patrol officers, no more detain facilities, private transportation, where illegals are transport back to the border so its a big money business for everyone ,just sit down and enjoy the show... Welcome to the border ....
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Sue Firman
April 2, 2014
I loved these episodes and am sorry they've ended. It developed a greater appreciation for the Border Patrol and their never-ending, useless, thankless job- especially their real problem-the US government just putting on an appeasement show
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