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Vehicle or in a human smuggling train. >> reporter: authorities say mexican traffickers increasingly use this land to enter the u.s., forced to do so by law enforcement crackdowns elsewhere. agents say on most of the mountain tops in this area within the united states from the border to phoenix, mexico hides its surveillance teams in caves to spy on american law enrespect fomt. >> at any given time theres about 200 or 300 scouts working in these positions. >> reporter: and this is one of those c...

Especially exposed. so we run through them. they say there are snipers on the road so you have to go from cover to cover. the rebels advance. they reload. they hide behind whatever wall they can find. then they push forward. a rebel leader told us saving misrata today is as urgent as saving benghazi was two weeks ago. >> there is abuse in misrata. they have taken women out of their homes, assassinated people on site, put snipe oerns top of the buildings. mr. obama mentioned yesterday -- >> the r...

Than terrifying. the rebels have some weapons. they dont know what to do with them. we saw one of the rebels, they were trying to find fire and mortar. mortar is basically a tube attached to a base plate and you have to dig the base plate into the ground because the mortar is high explosive and creates a lot of energy. they didnt do that. instead they just dropped the mortar in the tube without securing it, and it wildly went off to the side, which is dangerous. but this is basic. this is basic ...