Border Wars

- Season 5

(2012)

Ride along as a Customs and Border Protection helicopter and Border Patrol riverboat assist agents on the ground as they pursue suspected drug mules running through the dense brush on an action-packed chase along the Rio Grande.

In Mission, Texas, Officer Heather Schrock is in a high-speed chase with a car reported to be carrying drugs.

Go on patrol on the South Texas border, which is separated from Mexico only by the Rio Grande River.

Meet specially trained agents and officers equipped to combat the border problems that prevail in South Texas.

In the border town Havana, new agent Rodney Garza plays a role in tracking a suspected smuggler, who is subsequently arrested.

Sometimes, the lure of easy money turns ordinary citizens into criminals. Along the border, drug trafficking and illegal immigrant smuggling don't affect just law enforcement--they touch everybody in the community.

Follow agents and their animal partners as they work tirelessly for Border Patrol and border town police departments, proving that the men and women working to protect the border couldn't be as effective without the help of these animals in action.

Laredo narcotics officers raid a residence in a school zone after a confidential informant buys crack cocaine direct from a drug dealer's house.

The action on the border runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Follow Border Patrol Agents and local law enforcement as they work around the clock to stop trafficking across the US border.

Border Wars explores Money and Corruption - speaking truths of an America few have seen in the Rio Grand Valley, a 43,000 square mile area of South Texas.