Forbidden Cargo
Description
Ever wondered what it's like to get caught red-handed at the border? Fraudulent visas. Narcotics mules. Stolen art. Human trafficking. Illegal citrus. It's all part of a day's work at JFK airport in New York. Forbidden Cargo brings you an inside look at the operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents at the busiest international airport in America. Nearly half a million flights carry over 45 million passengers, one million tons of cargo, and 100,000 tons of mail to and from JFK each year. Everyone and everything has a story. Each person and parcel is a potential threat. How do CBP and HSI separate the good from the bad? Whether the contraband is a kilo of cocaine disguised as flour, a fake visa presented at immigration, counterfeit erectile dysfunction medication, or potentially disease-carrying birds transported in a suitcase, this program follows CBP and HSI as they arrest, refuse entry to, seize, or repatriate the offending people, documents, and goods.
Runtime
48 min
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Date of Publication
[2013], c2011
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Films on Demand
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