Borderforce USA: The Bridges

A great real-life show of the border Not only is it educational , but it is exciting and Up to date

Huge seizures worth millions. Drugs confiscated and destroyed (maybe). Smugglers given a sweet kiss on the cheek and sent back to Mexico to try again tomorrow. Like they say almost every episode, "it's a 'cat and mouse' game." But you can bet that little old Wisconsin-born ME would go to jail for life for those (3) 5-gallon buckets of 92% meth and 8% paint and the two cases of Corona that were actually ALL liquified meth. Instead, the two fat, middle-aged senoras were questioned and released. Yeah, right, as if they were going to paint their house in Laredo with meth and have a party with everyone drinking straight meth. If I was in the federal government and I saw this show, heads would roll!

I actually love watching, it shows how many drugs come over the boarder and how many ways people try to get them over. It also shows how hard the people at the boarder work to keep us safe from people bringing it over, but oh my Goodness! How upsetting. I litterly can't stand watching the fact that they let every single one of these people go free after they are caught smuggling millions over the boarder.. Or at least trying. Are you kidding me!!! Cocaine, meth, fentanyl, and they just let them walk free!! If that was any one of us in the states with an ounce or two of that stuff we would be sitting in prison. What the heck is going on here! Something is broken with that system and needs to be looked at!

This is such an incredible show that documents the work of Customs and Border Protection officers who work on the international bridges that link Texas and Mexico. With amazing production standards, incredible stories and totally unbiased approach to the subject matter, each episode feels and looks like a documentary. It baffles me somewhat that other reviewers mark it down on the basis that so few of the people caught smuggling drugs are prosecuted. The fact of the matter is that prosecutions are decided by the United States attorney or the local DAs - not by the officers who seize these loads coming across from Mexico. Furthermore, anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of how the drug cartels operate would know that the people smuggling the drugs over the border are usually doing so because they are threatened with death if they don't. As far as I am concerned, this is a "must watch" show; it's educational, revelatory and entertaining - a rarity in these days of "reality" TV!