Customs and Border Protection

Brittany M. Hughes | October 17, 2016
Somewhere off the coast of Florida, there's a drug dealer having a really rotten day. The latest in a troubling trend, it turns out drugs are now…
Brittany M. Hughes | October 17, 2016
Fiscal year 2016 ended with a proverbial bang at the Southwest U.S. border, as U.S. Customs and Border Protection report September was the second…
Brittany M. Hughes | October 6, 2016
Assaults on border agents are up 23 percent from last year, with another 68 agents reportedly assaulted in the month of August alone – averaging out…
Nick Kangadis | October 5, 2016
At Uncommon Sense, the mind-numbingly stupid will find no refuge. The sky is blue. Water is wet. Look both ways when crossing the street. For taste…
Brittany M. Hughes | September 21, 2016
In case anyone’s forgotten in all the uproar over the Southwest U.S. border, we also have a Northern border that appears wide open to illegal…
Brittany M. Hughes | September 19, 2016
While the vast majority of illegal border crossings remain concentrated at the Southwest U.S. border between the United States and Mexico, Customs…
Brittany M. Hughes | September 12, 2016
U.S. Customs and Border Protection had another record-breaking month at the Southwest border in August, during which agents caught 5,804 …
Brittany M. Hughes | August 26, 2016
The bodies of as many as 850 illegal alien men, women and children who died trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border unlawfully now lie frozen and…
Brittany M. Hughes | August 22, 2016
A total of 140 cases of assault against border agents have been reported in the last three months alone, according to data recently published by U.…
Brittany M. Hughes | August 12, 2016
With two months left to go before the close of Fiscal Year 2016, the number of illegal aliens caught at the Southwest U.S. border so far this…
Brittany M. Hughes | August 11, 2016
A four-year-old little girl from El Salvador was shot while trying to cross the border illegally with her mother, proving yet again that the Obama…
Brittany M. Hughes | August 3, 2016
While proponents of America’s lenient immigration system continue to tout compassion as a defense for illegal immigration, the human toll of our …