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The Pentagon is seizing on a dramatic surge in cartel drone operations along the southern border to establish a domestic testing ground for next-generation counter-drone warfare, explicitly emulating the rapid technological adaptation driven by the war in Ukraine.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A Texas jury found Wilmer Vladimir Ortega-Ruiz guilty of shooting a United States Marine Corps veteran working as a security guard at a San Antonio sports bar in May 2025. Ortega-Ruiz, a Honduran national, faces up

In yet another chapter of the saga to stop a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in San Antonio, protesters organized by the Bexar County Democrats held a march and rally that began and ended at a local public middle school.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Del Rio Port of Entry discovered a stash of methamphetamine hidden in a vehicle by an alleged smuggler hoping to make it into the United States from Mexico on September 28. The smuggling scheme unraveled when CBP officers conducted a more intensive inspection after the smuggler arrived at the port of entry.

A husband and wife from Mexico stand accused in a U.S. federal court of running a human smuggling operation that would drug young children in order to get them across the border.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked frantically to locate and arrest a suspect connected to a “credible threat” to attack the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas on October 1. The suspect, 40-year-old Benny Caldera Jr., was taken into custody early Wednesday morning after a DPS SWAT team located him at his residence in Converse, a suburban city 13 miles northeast of San Antonio.

A Venezuelan illegal alien with a final order of removal from an immigration judge is now facing federal charges for assaulting a federal officer. The Venezuelan man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer at the end of a high-speed pursuit where he allegedly rammed an officer’s vehicle.

Slightly more than 100 protesters returned to the scene of last Sunday’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer-involved shooting of a 28-year-old Venezuelan national who the agency alleges is illegally in the United States and had a final order of removal. The protest, organized by the Austin Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), featured several activist speakers who shouted anti-ICE chants to the crowd.

A few dozen protesters showed up at San Antonio’s City Hall to protest the shooting of a 28-year-old Venezuelan illegal alien during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action on September 20. The poorly attended protest, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), drew little attention from passing tourists visiting the Alamo City on Friday.

After years of Breitbart reporting on cartel drone usage, legacy news outlets are beginning to do the catch on.

A woman in Lubbock, Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court to 11 counts of Animal Crushing. Police began an investigation into the woman’s bizarre behavior after finding a photo of her engaging in lewd sexual acts with a dog.

In the wake of the officer-involved shooting of a Venezuelan illegal alien by an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer in Austin on Sunday, protesters painted threatening graffiti on overpass support pilings. The graffiti includes threats to kill President Donald Trump and ICE officers.

While media attention in Central Texas remains fixed on local federal law enforcement operations, the Austin City Council is quietly moving to funnel hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars to non-profit groups tasked with fighting federal deportations.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents made a shocking discovery after stopping a suspicious vehicle while patrolling a rural highway near Eagle Pass, Texas. When agents inspected a portable plastic water tank commonly used on ranches in the area, they found four people hiding inside the narrow space.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials report that the Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer in Austin on Sunday entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden Border Crisis. The man attempted to flee from an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer during a targeted law enforcement operation.

Protests broke out in the Texas Capital City on Sunday after an ICE officer reportedly shot a fleeing illegal alien. According to the Austin police chief, City Councilman Mike Siefel made false allegations about the circumstances, saying the ICE officer fired five times through the car’s windshield. Facts surrounding the shooting remain under investigation.

Eagle Pass Police Department officers assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force arrested an El Paso woman at the Camino Real Port of Entry on Thursday. Authorities say the suspect, 29-year-old Melanie Christine Cuellar, had been sought in connection with a deadly 2025 hit-and-run accident.

Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass nabbed two convicted sex offenders attempting to re-enter the United States in less than one week. In each case, the agents discovered the two had been previously deported from the United States after being convicted of sex crimes against children.

During the Biden administration, federal authorities had their hands tied in the way they could go after and prosecute members of terrorist cartels, said Aaron Reitz, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. Reitz explained at a press conference near the Texas-Mexico border that the Trump administration’s Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation is allowing the government to take back control of the border.

For the first time this century, a horse in a Texas border county has been found infested with the New World screwworm (NWS). The flesh-eating screwworm was found on the hind limb of a working horse in Presidio County, Texas, according to U.S. Equestrian Federation officials.

Police officers in Cedar Park, Texas, arrested a Venezuelan Illegal Alien while following up on a tip as to his location. The officers found the Venezuelan national, who is on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrant List. Police in Travis County, Texas, issued a warrant for his arrest for an alleged sexual assault of a child.

San Antonio City Council members requested an environmental study in what may be the city’s last hope to stop or delay the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) plan to convert an existing warehouse on the city’s southeast side.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge in Laredo, Texas, thwarted a narcotics smuggler’s attempt to bring $2.5 million in dangerous methamphetamine into the United States. The multi-million-dollar seizure occurred in late August in a region known to be one of the busiest Mexican drug cartel smuggling corridors on the southwest border.

A Cuban national, illegally in the United States, was sentenced in a federal court in San Antonio to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $10,000 in restitution for destruction of government property. Robyn Argote-Brooks, a 25-year-old from Havana, Cuba, was sentenced on Tuesday for causing damage to two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles in January.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the release of two New World screwworm (NWS) infested zones in Texas in yet another victory against the feared pest. The most recent development in the battle to control the spread of NWS marks the first NWS-infested zones to be released and cleared in Texas since the first case was detected in the state in June.

Despite a litany of protests and political efforts to block the opening of a massive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing and detention facility in the Alamo City, the agency will move forward with the project.

On Monday, Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham unveiled a sweeping, multi-front initiative aimed at cementing the state’s economic independence, fortifying its energy grid against growing demands, and expanding state-led border security operations. Grounded in the agency’s historic mission

Every American depends on three things that are so fundamental they often go unnoticed until they are threatened: dependable energy, a secure food supply, and a safe nation.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered all state agencies to stop funding local law enforcement Flock camera purchases and operations. The move comes shortly after the Texas Tribune announced an investigation into $30 million provided to local police departments for Flock cameras.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Black Hawk aircrew provided a bird’s-eye view of a high-speed pursuit in far West Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border. The alleged human smugglers led the Texas Department of Public Safety and Border Patrol agents on a chase that reached speeds in excess of 100 mph, leading to an eventual bail-out and armed carjacking.

U.S. Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, detected and gave chase to a small group of suspected illegal aliens attempting to illegally enter the United States on August 19. The commonplace incident took an interesting turn when agents apprehended the group of four illegal aliens and discovered one member of the group, a Cuban national, was returning after being deported for a prior conviction of a child sex offense in Nevada.

A Trump-appointed federal judge handed Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and far-left Attorney General Keith Ellison a stinging defeat on Wednesday, refusing to force Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott to extradite an ICE officer charged in connection with an immigration operation shooting.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo (D) took to social media to berate the county’s law enforcement officials and her fellow members of the County Commissioners Court over a state-mandated pay parity raise. In Texas, a county judge is the chief executive officer of the county.

A federal judge set bond for a cartel-connected businessman accused of conspiring with other businessmen and the Gulf Cartel to extort travelers headed to Central or South America who needed to cross through a particular port of entry at $1 million. He posted the bond less than 48 hours later.