the plane lands at the airport in mexico city. i am in a valium-induced fog. i am numb. i see my luggage, i point to a baggage man to lift it for me. he carries it over to customs. everything is dulled for me right now. the customs agent looks at me.
he had been sitting there watching people pass through. i m thinking this isn t supposed to happen. this is not supposed to happen. a customs agent took me into
these smuggle earls can be. the hidden secrets of the drug war. the tunnel that allowed el chapo to escape has become a familiar sight to federal agents. smugglers used to drive across or over the border. now, they often go underneath it. using sophisticated lighting and railway systems to sneak drugs and cash into the u.s. terry kirkpatrick spent 28 years as a u.s. customs agent and watched the rise of the drug tunnels firsthand control kathie leed in his book of sixty miles of border. they have the freedom to probably run several thousand pounds of cc or marijuana nightly. reporter: since 1990 at least 169 tunnels have been disappeared along the southern border, more than 100 in nogales. the longest in the area stretched from a house in mexico 70 feet to the border and then another 411 feet to a house in
underground tunnel that allowed el chapo to escape has become a familiar sight to federal agents. smugglers used to drive across or over the border now they often go underneath it using sophisticated lighting and railway systems to sneak drugs and cash into the u.s. terry kirkpatrick spent 28 years as a u.s. customs agent and watched the rise of the drug tunnels firsthand chronicled in his book sixty miles of border. when they build a tunnel and it s not detected they have the freedom to run 7,000 pounds of marijuana and cocaine nightly. 65 tunnels have been discovered along the southern border. more than 100 of them in mogalis. one of them stretches hundreds of feet to a house in arizona. the latest discovery in this
a customs agent took me into a back room dragging my suitcase with me. he says, take off your shirt. and then what do you have under the cast? i says, nothing. i am shouting to him i m injured. he feels that i am tightening my stomach and he says, loosen up, loosen up. and i don t. and he slaps me in the face. i thought, oh, this is serious. he gets out these pliers and he feels a rustle. he shouts drugs. drugs. and a doctor comes and he just cuts the cast off.