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A man was shot and killed after fleeing from a United States Border Patrol Immigration Checkpoint in West Texas and opening fire on pursuing officers. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the incident occurred near Kent, Texas, on Interstate 10 on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.

ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston issued detainers for two Mexican nationals recently arrested for intoxication manslaughter. This, as ICE Houston wrapped up a year of aggressive enforcement targeting criminal illegal aliens with repeated drunk‑driving convictions.

Austin Police released the identity of two victims in the downtown mass shooting that occurred early Sunday morning in the city’s entertainment district. A third fatality was announced by authorities on Monday afternoon after a victim hospitalized as a result shooting died after being pulled from life support at an area hospital.

On Sunday, investigators executed a search warrant on the Pflugerville, Texas home of Ndiaga Diagne, the deceased gunman responsible for the deadly Austin shooting that occurred earlier in the day. According to a source familiar with the investigation, law enforcement officials found an Iranian flag and photos of leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran during a search of the home.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas Military Department to activate service members under Operation Fury Shield, launching expanded patrols at energy facilities, ports, and the southern border as state leaders brace for potential retaliation following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. The deployment includes heightened cybersecurity operations and coordinated security efforts with DPS and federal partners, according to the governor’s announcement.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has discovered evidence at the scene of the mass shooting at a popular Austin nightclub that indicates a potential nexus to terrorism. During a press conference held in Austin early Saturday morning, FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Alex Doran of the San Antonio FBI office said the evidence was discovered on the shooter and in his vehicle.

Authorities in the Texas border city of McAllen are investigating a fight between neighbors that escalated into a full blown gunbattle that left seven people shot, including four who died.

At least three people were killed, and 17 were injured after shots rang out at a popular Sixth Street bar in the Texas capital city of Austin early Sunday morning. According to authorities, the shooter was killed by police officers who arrived at the establishment within a minute of the first emergency call.

A U.S. military counter‑drone system brought down a Customs and Border Protection surveillance drone near Fort Hancock, Texas, after operators identified the aircraft as a potential threat inside military‑controlled airspace. Federal officials said the engagement occurred in a remote area

A viral video taken at a Whataburger in Paris, Texas, shows the restaurant manager repeatedly slamming a plastic trash can over the body of an unruly customer who allegedly ventured behind the counter and assaulted the manager. It is not known what the customer ordered, but the video shows what he was served.

A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Aircraft Operations Division drone pilot detected three illegal immigrants moments after they crossed the Rio Grande early Thursday, guiding troopers and Border Patrol agents to the group. The female migrant was found wearing six colored wristbands on each wrist — a cartel method for tagging migrants by payment level and assigned crossing point — as she traveled with a three‑year‑old child.

The investigation into anti‑ICE student walkouts widened on Monday, with three additional Texas school districts added to a growing probe examining whether officials coordinated or encouraged students to join the January 30 protests.

Community opposition in Hutchins, Texas, forced the collapse of a proposed ICE mega‑detention center this week, after residents organized a sustained pressure campaign that prompted the property owner to reject any deal with the Department of Homeland Security.

Benjamin Hanil Song, the accused Antifa organizer behind the July 4, 2025, armed assault on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center, is expected to testify Tuesday as nine defendants stand trial in Fort Worth on federal charges ranging from attempted murder of a federal officer to providing material support to terrorists

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper uncovered a human‑smuggling operation on US‑90 in Kinney County after stopping a black Cadillac XT5 driven by a San Antonio woman. The trooper arrested the woman for allegedly transporting four illegal aliens— including two children from Belize — toward stash‑house destinations in Texas and Florida.

An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo proposes a sweeping “detention reengineering” initiative aimed at fixing the system’s most chronic failures.

Federal agencies are still offering conflicting explanations for last week’s unprecedented shutdown of El Paso’s airspace, even as a separate NOTAM remains active over nearby Santa Teresa, New Mexico, extending the mystery surrounding the incident and prompting Republican lawmakers to call for a formal investigation.

U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says there is much work to be done to hone Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) defenses along the U.S.-Mexico border in the wake of a federal shutdown of airspace in portions of his district on Tuesday evening. Gonzales told Breitbart Texas he’s working to remedy the situation through funding and education.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has debunked a hoax spread by disinformation that claimed major highways in and out of El Paso would be closed for a ten-day period. The time frame cited in the fake correspondence matches the duration of a temporary flight restriction issued by the Federal Aviation Administration in the area related to a cartel drone incursion into the El Paso metropolitan area.

A recent cartel operation sent drones from Mexico into the United States, triggering a national security alert that temporarily shut down the airspace around El Paso, Texas, and Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed that she has not received any information about cartel drones flying into U.S. airspace from Mexico.

A cartel drone incursion over El Paso prompted the FAA’s unprecedented national‑defense airspace shutdown over El Paso and eastern New Mexico, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The incident raises new questions about cross‑border threats as federal agencies remain silent on the details.

Travis County District Attorney José Garza has added another police indictment to his growing list, charging a DPS trooper while the career criminal he chased — a documented gang member with multiple pending felonies — remains free thanks to the DA’s revolving‑door justice system.

The State of Texas has announced it will begin imposing work requirements for residents who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The new provisions required under the Trump administration’s Big Beautiful Bill took effect in the state on Sunday.

Marshall Moreno has spent more than 20 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by exposure in Austin, Texas in 2003. Today, Moreno is a free man after his victim, his biological daughter, says the assault never occurred.

Nearly two hundred members of the Iranian American community in the Alamo City gathered over the weekend to show support for protesters in Iran seeking to topple the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei government. Rally-goers joined in chants calling for freedom for Iran, while passing motorists honked their horns in support of their cause.

Two illegal aliens detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, tested positive for measles. The contractor-run ICE facility, designed to hold more than 2,000 family unit detainees, is on quarantine as the outbreak is addressed.

COLDSPRING, Texas — Texas officials are bracing for what Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller calls a potentially statewide threat as flesh‑eating New World screwworms continue pushing north through Mexico. The threat prompted Governor Greg Abbott to issue a rare statewide disaster

Several hundred protesters — joined by waves of high school students who walked out of class — converged on San Antonio’s Travis Park Friday for the “National Shutdown” demonstration, unleashing a barrage of attacks on ICE, the Border Patrol, President Trump, Israel, and even the city’s Democrat mayor before marching through the streets near the Alamo.

A Democrat scored a rare win in one of Texas’s reddest legislative seats on Saturday, capturing a state Senate district that Donald Trump carried by double digits as Republicans struggled to turn out voters in a low‑participation special election. The Democrat victory could be short‑lived, with the seat back on the ballot in November’s general election.

A San Antonio woman who helped run a multimillion‑dollar human‑smuggling ring moving illegal aliens from Eagle Pass to the Alamo City was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison. The sentencing follows her conviction for the death of a smuggled illegal alien who died in a packed trailer and was dumped in a ditch near her property, the Justice Department announced.

Court records show that the recent kidnapping that turned into a shootout between gunmen and police in the parking lot of a local bank in South Texas has a direct cartel connection. The two gunmen were reportedly carrying out a $150,000 cartel hit placed on the victim.

The State of Texas is offering sheriffs as much as $140,000 to bolster cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), tying the new funding directly to participation in the federal 287(g) program. Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock announced the initiative Thursday, calling it a force multiplier for sheriffs working to identify and detain criminal migrants, as more than half of Texas counties qualify.

Data from Texas has found that illegal migrants have cost the state’s hospitals more than one billion dollars in 2025.

The Department of Homeland Security began installing a massive 500‑mile network of floating buoy barriers along the U.S.–Mexico border, a move that mirrors the deterrence strategy first deployed by Texas under Governor Greg Abbott as part of Operation Lone Star.

The city of San Antonio and Corazon Ministries, a nonprofit, have launched a Sharps Collection Pilot Program that includes installing a drug needle disposal kiosk near downtown San Antonio. The city currently ranks number two in the state in terms of the number of people experiencing homelessness, second only to Dallas.