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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.

Little did i know that decision to take some valium was going to change my life forever. 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. under the influence of valium, time stopped.

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: ...

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 sout...

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.