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Impunity. >> reporter: it's worth noting the mexican military just took down the largest fentanyl lab in mexico's history three weeks ago in sinaloa which is "el chapo"'s old so far thing ground. member he needs to get on the same page with his own authorities. neil? neil: you know, griff, it's interesting when you talk to border patrol folks, and you talk to them far more than i co, almost to a man they have been saying the same to me that we don't need soldiers as much as taking the handcuffs, no pun intended, off of the border patrol agents to do their job. and they could deal with this dru...

This unassuming home. in a quiet, family-friend neighborhood. that white building right there, that's the fentanyl lab. the army says they seized 270,000 pills here. all containing fentanyl. they had all sorts of machines to make the pills. in his nearly 35 years in the army working to dismantle drug operations the colonel tells me the fentanyl has been far more devastating and difficult to control than cocaine, heroin and meth. they test substances to know what exactly they're seizing. so it shows it here breakdown of what the chemical is and what makes it up and even has here listed the hazm...

As some see it. here the mexican army is on the hunt for drug labs. with 60 short soldiers, and in a convoy of six armored vehicles. we travel out of here, into a rural mountainous landscape. u.s. officials estimate fentanyl, makes mexico's criminal organizations billions of dollars each year, the cartels, determined to eliminate anyone or anything that might threaten their profit. colonel alfredo gonzales quit us, our guide. taking us to the scene of their latest fentanyl bust. >> they're securing the perimeter right now. >> days earlier he said cartel members opened fire on him and his soldi...

Them, hitting the vehicles and then the four guys started running. the army's intel led them to this unassuming home. in a quiet family-friendly neighborhood. that white building right there, that's the fentanyl lab. the army says they seized 270,000 pills here. all containing fentanyl. he said they had all sorts of machines to make the pills. in his 35 years in the army working to dismantle drug operations, the colonel says fentanyl has been flar more devastating and difficult to control than cocaine, heroin and meth. they test substances to know what exactly they are seizing. it shows here i...

The spread of these labs. and from inside the vehicle, we were talking to one of the colonels working drug busts for 35 years. he's death with cocaine, heroin, meth, fentanyl passes them all in the difficulty of stopping the spread. this is why it's so challenging, jake. it basically a house you're looking at and not even the entirety of the house that's a fentanyl lab but a small room so you compare that to a meth lab and those are rather sprawling and need more infrastructure and need to be near water. a fentanyl lab could be done really in a closet and produce a significant amount of pills....