The law enforcement and revenue collection role of the U.S. Customs Service is so fundamentally important to our nation that creating Customs was the second act of Congress over 200 years ago. Our complex and highly diverse mission has matured and expanded to cover everything from trade fraud and money laundering, to drug and illegal weapons interdiction, to child pornography and use of the Internet for cyber smuggling. In all these areas and more, the U.S. Customs Special Agent plays a central and critical role. It is both a challenging investigative role and an enforcement role charged with excitement.
Every day is different.
Unlike other Federal investigative careers, a U.S. Customs Special Agent career will require you to investigate multiple types of criminal activity. You don't work in just a single area. One day it may be international narcotics smuggling, the next it could be a complex money laundering or fraud scheme. With over 400 laws to enforce, broad powers of search and seizure at the border, and transnational authority, there is excitement every day in our complex series of missions. It started with a routine border seizure that opened the door to penetration of this major crime ring.