Originally Posted by CDSmith

Is there perhaps an extra charge (or set of charges) that comes when one is caught trying to enter the country by circumventing customs the way you're describing in addition to drug charges? (I don't know, I'm asking)

Seems like getting caught the way you're describing would come with a lot of extra incarceration grief not to mention having to navigate untold miles of unsafe travel in fugitive mode on foot over any and all manner of unkown terrain possibly with very little provisions, as opposed to just taking one's chances the far easier and more convenient way via the through-customs route.