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>> then it gets mailed? >> u.s. mail. it's hard to detect in the massive of letters that come into the u.s. a day. >> how effective is a law from preventing drugs from getting into the united states. >> in hard narcotics, i don't believe we get in a massive after of hard facts. it comes in through the port of entry in deep concealment or comes in through the mail or express consignments. >> sanjay is with me now. how potent is that? >> it's unbelievable. one kilogram bag of flower here, it's about 50 times more powerful than heroine, 100 times more powerful than morphines, this is really stron...

Part of the engine below the windshield, they started to pull out these bags of -- i guess we don't know what they are yet. five of them so far. six, seven, eight. just keeps coming. i'm just looking at how many packages you have here. looks like three deep. he's cutting through these packages with just a knife. looks like he's getting a little sample of whatever the drug is on the knife and then he puts it on some kind of scanner machine? >> he'll take a little sample out of the package, put it on testing equipment. the testing equipment will then give us a reading of what potentially that dr...

>> how you doing? >> the dea says most narcotics entering the u.s. are driven in, hidden in vehicles through what mexico's drug cartels call plazas, metropolitan area with legal border crossings. they're also all areas with a border wall. this gentleman was detained in a drug case as he was passing through the port of entry. right now he's under arrest and on his way to face justice. the next step was to search the car he was driving. what we're looking at right now is this vehicle was pulled into secondary screening here at the port of entry and it got a positive hit from the canine, the dog....

Port of entry and it's the busiest land entry. every day 0,000 vehicles, around 20,000 pedestrians and untold loads of narcotics make their way to the other side. what's the biggest threat coming through these borders? >> it's everything. we're looking at everyone. we're looking at illegal narcotics, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, all entering the border. >> in the san diego sector, which includes this port, seizures of heroin have tripled. last year all pounds of fentanyl seized at the mexican border were taken here. and meth seizures have more than quadrupled. that's one of your...

We're all piling in this thing. rapid deployment vehicle. here we go. this looks much more serious than what i've seen earlier today. how come? >> definitely. just the risk is a little more. obviously we're going into a house we don't know much about. >> do you expect to find more here than we've seen throughout the course of the day? >> we're hoping so. 30 seconds. >> there's the house. >> security. >> go, go! >> open the door! >> open the door! >> get on the floor! on the ground! on the ground now! >> did you see any narcotics yet? >> there is narcotics, yeah. >> whoa. >> yikes. >> do you mi...