[GH85Carrera]

There is a series on Nat Geo cable called "To catch a smuggler" and they show the border entry points for several US customs inspectors. Tens of thousands of people cross on foot every day. Lots more cross in vehicles. Of course the majority are legit travelers.

The cartels are picking cars owned by "regular people" and if the car is left unintended, the bad guys will crawl under and stick on magnetized packages to the undercarriage. They throw some dirt on the area to help disguise it.

Of course the border agents know of that practice. The use mirrors to look, and if something is slightly funny looking, it goes to inspection. One car had 8 packages of coke, worth over 100 grand. The drivers are usually surprised, and they usually let the drivers go if they have no record, and act right. Evidently the packages also have a GPS locator, and the bad guys find the car later, and remove the drugs and no doubt lots of successful trips on random cars.

It is amazing to see the people on foot crossing, and how many just went down for some drinking, or very vague stories.

One semi had over 2.5 million of drugs under a false floor in the trailer. Some of the drugs the find are things I have never even heard of. Of course I am an admitted neophyte of drug culture. I have never spent one penny on any illicit drug of any kind ever. The drug dealers would all be out of business overnight if the demand stopped. Not likely to ever happen.