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Country's opioid epidemic, president trump has made building up the wall a cornerstone of his agenda. >> the wall is going to get built. in case anybody has any question, the wall is going to get built and the wall is going to stop drugs. >> reporter: but i wanted to learn how effective the wall would be at accomplishing that. this is a physical wall in between two countries that we're looking at here. >> the vast amount of hard narcotics don't come through in places like this. the vast amount of hard narcotics come through at the ports of entry where we just were. >> reporter: and besides met...

Narcotics come through at the ports of entry, where we just were. >> reporter: and besides meth, cocaine, heroin, or marijuana, it's fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin. it's the biggest challenge nowadays. the most recent numbers from the center for disease control found that overdose deaths from synthetic opioids like fentanyl rose over 72% in just a year. in the past, cartels might try and smuggle 100 kilograms of drugs across the border. it wasn't easy to do. they were likely to get caught. but here's part of the problem. nowadays, they can smuggle across something that looks ...