Customs and Border Protection

Brittany M. Hughes | January 31, 2017
In a win for American safety, U.S. border agents nabbed a Mexican national coming through a U.S. port of entry who was listed among the FBI’s top 10…
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 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 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 14, 2016
On Halloween night, somewhere between 2:15 and 3 a.m., 26-year-old Roberto Carlos Flores Sibrian crashed into a young woman’s car with his SUV on a…
Brittany M. Hughes | November 10, 2016
While the liberal media reeled from the news of Donald Trump’s election as the next president of the United States Wednesday, U.S. Customs and…
Brittany M. Hughes | November 1, 2016
Two border agents working the Calexico border station in California were assaulted within a week of each other, as the number of assaults against U.S…
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…