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Brittany M. Hughes | January 25, 2017
If President Donald Trump is serious about constructing a great wall along the southern U.S. border, he might want to think about putting at least…
Brittany M. Hughes | January 10, 2017
Less than two full weeks into the new year, U.S. border agents are already warning of an escalating wave of illegal migration from Cuba,…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 20, 2016
Small children, weeping mothers, desperate toddlers fleeing gunfights in the streets – this is the dramatic, gut-wrenching picture that’s been…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 19, 2016
Incidents of assault against border patrol officers in the first two months of FY2017 are up 231 percent over the same time frame last year,…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 19, 2016
About 1,574 – that’s how many illegal aliens were apprehended at the U.S. Mexico border per day during the month of November, marking the fifth…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 12, 2016
Smuggling illicit drugs across the U.S border is a lucrative business. From hiding hundreds of pounds of cocaine or marijuana in vehicles, funneling…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 8, 2016
Border patrol officials in Texas announced Wednesday that they’ve opened a second temporary housing facility in Texas to deal with the latest surge…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 5, 2016
Border agents with the Weslaco Station in Texas were assaulted with rocks from across the Mexican border, marking nearly half a dozen instances of…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 2, 2016
A new report from the Institute for Defense Analyses estimates that not only does border patrol catch only about half of all the illegal aliens who…
Brittany M. Hughes | November 30, 2016
Federal prosecutions for immigration violations have declined by 15 percent over the past five years, new data from the U.S. Department of Justice…
Brittany M. Hughes | November 28, 2016
So that immigration crisis you never hear about on your evening news? It’s not over. Not by a long shot. With only a few months left to go before a…
Brittany M. Hughes | November 21, 2016
Immigration officials at the U.S. Mexico border have been forced to open a new temporary facility in Texas to accommodate a recent surge of illegal…