Houston vice officers have arrested and charged a man with prostituting a 4-year-old girl. The arrest came about following a prostitution sting operation where police have been hunting human traffickers.
Breitbart Texas learned that Texas Governor Greg Abbott approved the funds authorized by the 84th Texas Legislature to purchase and install thousands of additional cameras to monitor the Texas/Mexico border. The nearly $900,000 grant to begin the program recently received final approval by the Governor’s office.
A previously deported Honduran illegal alien may finally be leaving the country after serving his time for filming a woman in a San Angelo, Texas, Walmart bathroom. The man completed his 270-day sentence and was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for processing.
It now appears that the death of a Texas teenager who was found dead in his vehicle outside a Lowe’s parking lot in Austin, Texas, was a suicide–suicide by cobra. A report from the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the manner of death to be suicide.
The man who used a vehicle to run over a Dallas, Texas, police officer is an illegal alien who has been deported three times over the past 11 years.
The nation’s oldest living veteran is spending Veterans Day in an Austin, Texas hospital instead of celebrating a day he has earned. The 109-year-old was hospitalized with pneumonia.
A Houston area news station is reporting that a person of interest in the shooting of Austin Criminal District Court Judge Julie Kocurek has been arrested. The Travis County (Austin) judge was shot Friday night as she returned home. The entrance to her driveway had been blocked to force the driver out of the car.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Monday evening effectively putting a halt to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty program. Texas and 26 other states joined in the lawsuit to block the Administration’s illegal action.
The Tarrant County District Attorney in Fort Worth, Texas, has teamed up with the Texas Attorney General to make an arrest in a felony voter fraud case. The case involves a Mexican citizen who allegedly voted illegally in at least two Texas elections.
Reports in Texas indicate that Austin police suspect retaliation as a possible motive in the shooting of a Travis County Criminal District Court judge. The judge was attacked Friday night after returning home with some friends. She is said to be in stable condition with serious injuries.
Texas Senator John Cornyn took to the floor of the U.S. Senate last week to join in the call to have the murder of Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega classified as a line-of-duty death. The move, if approved, would bring additional benefits to the family left behind after this agent was gunned down during a robbery attempt.
A two week prostitution sting operation landed sixty people in jail as Houston brings focus to human trafficking in the Bayou City. The arrests occurred during the first two weeks of October and have recently been revealed as part of an ongoing statewide anti-human trafficking push by Texas law enforcement officials.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a new plan to strip state grant funding from county sheriff’s with a Sanctuary City policy of not honoring ICE detainers. The move follows Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s order that criminal illegal aliens in her jail will be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine if ICE detainers will be enforced.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker called the campaign against her pet ordinance a “calculated campaign of lies” and blamed area pastors and their messages from the pulpits of churches across the city. Parker’s HERO (Houston Equal Rights Ordinance) proposition was soundly defeated by popular vote after the Texas Supreme Court ordered that the measure be placed on the ballot.
All seven of the propositions for Texas Constitutional Amendments passed easily in a statewide election that saw a voter turnout of just over 11 percent. Texans will now see a lower property tax thanks to an increased homestead exemption and don’t have to worry about the state legislature creating a new sales tax on homes.
It’s election day in Texas as voters across the state come out to vote in statewide referendums and local elections. In Houston, the battle over the HERO ordinance proposition that would allow men to enter women’s dressing rooms and bathrooms based on “gender identity” is bringing large numbers of people to the polls.
Twenty-eight illegal aliens were found hiding in a horse trailer during a routine traffic stop just over 300 miles from the Mexican border with Texas. The traffic stop occurred Monday evening along a major trafficking corridor, U.S. 59, about one hour southwest of Houston.
Border Patrol agents across the country are joining with other law enforcement officers in boycotting films made by Quentin Tarantino after he called police “murderers.” Tarantino participated in an anti-police rally in New York City just days after the New York Police Officer Randolph Holder was shot in the head while chasing an armed suspect.
Nearly 100 DREAMers took to the streets in front of the Harris County jail calling for an end to detention and deportation of criminal illegal aliens. The crowd chanted protests against President Obama and local sheriffs for “colaborating” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to deport aliens and separate families.
The FBI agent who was shot Thursday night during the service of a warrant in the Texas panhandle was shot by a fellow law enforcement officer. The FBI agent is still in a Lubbock, Texas hospital where he is recovering from his wound.
A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper was killed late Thursday night in north Texas in a single-car accident. The veteran trooper’s vehicle left the roadway at about 10:30 p.m. and was later discovered by a passing motorist.
FBI Special Agent Mike Orndorff was shot while working in the town of Crosbyton, which is located about 30 miles east of Lubbock on U.S. Highway 82. He is reported to be in critical condition at University Medical Center in Lubbock, according to KCBD-NBC11 in Lubbock.
Former U.S. Secretary of State and Democrat presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton weighed in to support the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) that would make Houston businesses allow men who are dressed in female attire or otherwise say they feel like a woman to use women’s bathrooms, showers and locker rooms, regardless of their biological sex.
Six Texas Republican representatives joined with the eleven Democrats in the state’s congressional delegation to vote in favor of the bill to raise the debt ceiling. Nineteen Texas Republicans voted nay in attempting to block the measure. On a national level, 79 Republicans joined with the 187 Democrat members of the House to pass the measure back to the Senate.
An anti-sex trafficking advocate who worked for an Austin, Texas, organization aimed at helping victims of human trafficking was arrested in Austin, Texas, during a week-long prostitution sting. Austin cops arrested him during an operation that landed 41 people in the Travis County jail.
