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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.

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.

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.

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.

A shocking video out of San Antonio shows an illegal alien using his car as a battering ram against ICE agents, smashing into two federal vehicles and injuring an officer before agents dragged him from the driver’s seat to end the assault.

Workcrews tore out four rainbow crosswalks in the city’s Pride District after a Texas judge rejected activists’ eleventh‑hour attempt to block Governor Greg Abbott’s order demanding the removal of political symbols from the state’s roadways. The city, facing the loss of up to $80 million in federal transportation funds, moved ahead with the state‑mandated compliance as workers finished scraping the final colors by Tuesday morning.

A Dallas woman is out of a job after recording a TikTok video alerting illegal immigrants to nearby ICE activity, a message that spread rapidly online and raised questions about whether she was attempting to interfere with federal enforcement operations.

Hours after President Donald Trump warned Iran’s rulers against cracking down on demonstrators, more than a hundred Iranian Americans gathered at City Hall, waving the Lion and Sun flag and calling for reform. At the same time, a socialist group nearby protested ICE and voiced support for foreign strongmen.

A deep national divide over public safety isn’t emerging — it’s already here, and it’s impossible to miss. In state after state, Democratic governors and big‑city sanctuary leaders have spent years tearing down law enforcement, tying the hands of federal agencies, and feeding a narrative that treats officers as political adversaries instead of public servants. And then there’s Texas. Governor Greg Abbott has built one of the strongest, most unapologetically pro‑law‑enforcement records in the country, and he hasn’t blinked once.

Nearly two hundred members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) gathered in downtown San Antonio to protest the recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting in Minneapolis. The group and attendees created a makeshift memorial to Renee Good, the woman who was shot after driving her vehicle towards an ICE agent enforcing immigration laws on Wednesday.

A crowd of anti-ICE activists tried to force a street shutdown near the Texas Capitol on Saturday, but Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers moved in within seconds, forming a line and driving protesters back as tensions flared on the pavement. The protests follow the shooting by an ICE officer of a woman who appeared to weaponize her vehicle by driving at the officer while she interfered with the enforcement operation.

Texas Highway Patrol Troopers on horseback tracked and arrested an illegal alien on a remote border ranch in Maverick County on New Year’s Day. The troopers closed in on their target just outside Eagle Pass, Texas, shortly before noon. Troopers identified the man as a previously deported illegal alien — a convicted sex offender with multiple convictions for child-related crimes.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott unleashed a directive Monday, ordering state agencies to hunt down and stop any child‑care funding fraud inside Texas’s system. The governor made clear exactly why: the massive, systemic, taxpayer‑draining scandal that exploded in Minnesota under Democrat Governor Tim Walz.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D‑Texas, sounded off in a profanity‑filled rant after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Texas’s new congressional redistricting maps. Crockett unloaded on the Court and accused President Donald Trump and the GOP of “rigging the system” ahead of the midterms.

A covert C‑17 medevac flight carrying U.S. service members wounded in the operation to seize Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro landed in San Antonio over the weekend, where the troops were rushed to Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) for treatment. City officials confirmed the arrival after flight‑tracking data revealed the aircraft’s route from Joint Base Charleston to Puerto Rico and then to Texas.

As U.S. forces executed one of the most decisive military operations in decades — a Trump‑ordered strike that sent 150 aircraft into Venezuela and delivered dictator Nicolás Maduro into American custody — Texas Democrats erupted in fury, blasting the mission as “stupid,” “illegal,” and driven by personal greed.

While Venezuelan expatriates across the country cheered the U.S. capture of socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro, a small group of San Antonio socialists took to the streets Saturday to denounce the operation as “illegal” and “a war crime.”

Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers are no longer just writing tickets — they’re hunting cartel smugglers, tracking illegal border crossers through remote ranchlands, and helping federal agents dismantle foreign gang networks as part of Operation Lone Star 2.0.