Borderforce USA: The Bridges

2019 – 2025
Returning Series
Documentary · Crime
7 seasons
7.5/10

A joint venture between Discovery and BBC Studios, offering unprecedented access to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection agency as they operate on the 28 bridges connecting the United States of America and Mexico. The lives and work of the DHS are followed and explored as they guard the border and process the millions of people who cross it every year, as well as finding a wide array of illegal contraband, much of it expertly concealed.

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Latest: Season 6 · 2025

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E1. Episode 1
May 4, 2025 · 42m
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.
E2. Episode 2
May 11, 2025 · 42m
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.
E3. Episode 3
May 18, 2025 · 41m
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.
E4. Episode 4
May 25, 2025 · 41m
Border officers in Detroit apprehend a woman after finding a handgun and ammunition in her vehicle, and officers in Eagle Pass find 150,000 dollars' worth of methamphetamine.
E5. Episode 5
Jun 1, 2025 · 41m
Officers find a man-made compartment within the trailer of a truck returning Stateside, and two Americans arouse suspicions with an unsafe lane change at the US-Canada border.
E6. Episode 6
Jun 8, 2025 · 42m
Officers at Eagle Pass intercept a driver smuggling narcotics over the border, and a group of passengers in Laredo refuse to admit to owning an air compressor full of rifles.