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.
The search for missing 19‑year‑old Camila Mendoza‑Olmos took a devastating turn Tuesday when deputies and FBI agents found a body and a firearm in a brushy area just 200 yards from her residence, a location investigators had struggled to clear earlier due to heavy vegetation.
A quiet rural stretch outside Houston erupted into chaos Saturday when Harris County deputies descended on a suspected cockfighting operation and found a gruesome scene: roughly 300 live birds, about 50 dead, and crowds of people fleeing as law enforcement locked down multiple adjoining properties packed with cages, fighting pits, and paraphernalia.
More than a hundred volunteers, family members, and law enforcement personnel are widening the search for 19‑year‑old Camila Mendoza‑Olmos, who vanished from her Northwest San Antonio neighborhood on Christmas Eve.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to Breitbart Texas that the man who allegedly kidnapped a teenage girl and her dog on Christmas Day is a Salvadoran migrant who was given a green card during the Obama administration. The 15-year-old girl was reportedly kidnapped at knifepoint by 23-year-old Giovanni Rosales-Espinoza as she was walking her dog.
A father in Porter, Texas, used parental control features on his 15-year-old daughter’s cell phone to locate her after she went missing on Christmas Day. The young girl who disappeared while walking her dog was located by the father inside a pick-up truck in a secluded area, along with a suspected kidnapper who used a knife to force the girl into his vehicle.
Authorities say a Mexican Navy King Air carrying eight people—including a pediatric burn patient en route to Shriners Children’s Hospital—crashed into Galveston Bay Monday afternoon amid dense coastal fog. Two survivors were pulled from the wreckage as Texas DPS, the Coast Guard, and local agencies launched a large‑scale rescue and recovery operation.
A small group of socialist activists joined striking baristas at a northside Starbucks on Saturday, attempting to bolster a picket line that drew little interest from customers or nearby holiday shoppers. About 15 baristas have been on strike since December 4, part of a nationwide labor action demanding a union contract and accusing the coffee giant of unfair labor practices.
Authorities in South Texas arrested a human smuggler who had allegedly dragged a sick migrant out of a stash house and dumped him on a rural road, expecting him to die.
Award‑winning Tejano star Bobby Pulido’s run for Congress is colliding with his past online footprint, as lingering references to explicit material on his social media accounts raise questions about judgment and image as he campaigns for the Democrat Party nomination for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives’ 15th Texas Congressional District.
A team of law enforcement officers assigned to a fugitive task force managed to apprehend a suspect wanted for a capital murder case found hiding near the U.S.-Mexico Border in Eagle Pass, Texas. John Chancey III was located more than 250 miles away from where the murder occurred in Fayette County, Texas.
President Donald Trump blasted Mexico for “stealing America’s water.” He announced a five percent tariff on Mexican imports after the country failed to honor its treaty obligations, vowing to force compliance and promising Texas farmers that “relief is coming.”
In recent days, Texas DPS troopers and Border Patrol agents intercepted multiple smuggling attempts, including 51 migrants locked inside a refrigerated trailer, 23 crammed into a truck cab in La Salle County, and others fleeing in a rollover crash in Zapata County.
Two Democrat lawmakers from Texas appear to be losing sleep over a recent federal law enforcement raid at an illegally run nightclub that resulted in the arrests of more than 150 illegal aliens. Those arrested included 27 suspected members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Two Democrat congressmen are now demanding answers about the recent raid.
Federal Judge Jerry Edwin Smith delivered a blistering dissent against fellow jurist Jeffrey Vincent Brown, condemning Brown’s 160‑page injunction blocking Texas’s 2025 redistricting map as “a Nobel Prize for Fiction” and “the most outrageous conduct” he has seen in nearly four decades on the bench. Smith’s rebuke came as the Supreme Court stepped in with an administrative stay, halting Brown’s ruling that found Texas racially gerrymandered its new congressional districts.
Governor Greg Abbott confirmed Saturday that Texas National Guard troops deployed to Illinois in October to support the federal Operation Midway Blitz immigration enforcement have been ordered to return to the Lone Star State before Thanksgiving.
A U.S. Department of Justice employee has been hit with state terrorism charges after allegedly doxxing a federal agent during a border raid.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week that nearly 3,600 criminal illegal aliens were arrested in Houston during the six-week Democrat-led government shutdown. Department of Homeland Security officials said the arrests targeted the “worst of the worst,” including convicted pedophiles, MS-13 gang members, kidnappers, and repeat offenders previously deported multiple times.
A 17-year-old illegal alien arrested and released by federal immigration authorities during the Biden administration has been charged with a brutal hammer attack on a woman jogging in a Texas park, reigniting concerns over public safety and immigration enforcement failures.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations on Tuesday. The designation will allow for heightened enforcement actions against the organization and its affiliates by authorities within the Lone Star State.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott officially launched his campaign for a historic fourth term Sunday evening, delivering a fiery re-election announcement speech that doubled down on conservative priorities and praised President Donald Trump’s border policies.
Oklahoma law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 70 illegal aliens in a targeted highway sweep, including 34 caught unlawfully operating commercial vehicles. Many had obtained CDLs from sanctuary states, such as California, Illinois, and New York, despite lacking legal status or basic English proficiency. Officials warn that these policies are putting lives at risk by enabling unqualified drivers to operate massive tractor-trailers across state lines.
In a high-impact 10-day operation across Southeast Texas, ICE Houston arrested 1,505 illegal aliens—including gang members, child rapists, and foreign fugitives—amid growing public demand for immigration enforcement and national security. The arrests included a Mexican Mafia member wanted for murder and rape, a four-time deported Paisas gang member with a violent record, and five child predators—all previously roaming free in American communities. Breitbart Texas rode with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers during this immigration crackdown.
More than 120 illegal aliens were arrested on Texas roadways in the greater Houston area in a single day. The operation that stretched into the late hours of October 29 cleared the roads of often unlicensed and uninsured illegal aliens, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A federal multi-agency task force raided a Home Depot parking lot in Southeast Houston, where they discovered an armed Salvadoran illegal alien. Breitbart Texas has observed the unvetted illegal aliens who frequent Home Depot parking lots for more than a decade as they look for people to take them to their homes for day labor work.
During the Biden-era border crisis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the busing of illegal aliens to sanctuary cities, including more than 35,000 who were bused to the Chicago area. Now, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials ordered 100 arrested illegal aliens to be bused to Texas — not for release, but for deportation processing.
In a bold nighttime sweep through Houston’s high-crime corridors, Breitbart Texas rode with a team of 40 federal officers and agents arrested approximately 25 illegal aliens—many with criminal records — during a four-hour ICE operation that unfolded under pounding rain. Armed with a new data-driven targeting system and a mandate to saturate the streets, law enforcement teams encountered suspects actively committing crimes as part of a sweeping crackdown aimed at restoring order and sending a message: ICE is now a 24/7 presence in Texas.
Three illegal aliens from Mexico have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of 43-year-old Mary Gonzales, whose body was found in a North Austin field on October 6. Texas authorities apprehended one suspect, while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested two others. The arrests prompted sharp criticism from Homeland Security officials who linked the crime to Biden-era border policies.
A Union Pacific railroad employee reported the discovery of a brush fire near a storage facility along an interstate highway in Houston. Firefighters responded and found the partially burned body of a man hanging by a rope from the overpass, police officials stated.
A routine traffic stop in Eagle Pass led Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers to apprehend a previously deported child sex offender from Mexico, officials confirmed. The Oct. 15 stop in Maverick County uncovered three illegal immigrants inside a Dodge Challenger, including 49-year-old Jose Aleman Arroyo, an aggravated felon convicted of indecency with a child and assault in North Carolina just two months prior.
Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) officials alerted more than 3.5 million low-income residents — including 1.7 million children — that November food benefits will be cut off if Democrats continue blocking budget negotiations in Washington. Republicans say the shutdown stems from Democratic demands to expand Obamacare benefits to illegal aliens, a move GOP leaders refuse to fund. With SNAP funding set to expire, Texas is complying with federal directives to halt payments, leaving vulnerable families at risk as the Schumer-led standoff drags on.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered National Guard and DPS tactical units to secure the Capitol in Austin, citing credible concerns over antifa-linked groups and potential unrest during a planned “No Kings Day” protest. The protests, part of a nationwide campaign against President Trump’s policies, have drawn scrutiny for their ties to far-left organizations and their timing amid a prolonged government shutdown.
A jury in Fort Bend County, Texas, sentenced a Houston man to 18 years in state prison for multiple sex offenses against a 15-year-old girl. The Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office stated the man lured the teenage girl into his vehicle and sexually assaulted her.
Two people were killed near Fort Worth, Texas, when a twin-engine aircraft crashed near a business park, bursting into flames. The plane crashed into multiple trailers parked at the facility on the north side of the city.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Robert Leslie Roberson, III, who is currently housed on death row in the state’s Polunsky Unit. The court sent the case back to the East Texas Piney Woods trial court in Palestine to consider Roberson’s “new” or “junk” science claim. Roberson’s execution was set for October 16, 2025.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott joined hundreds of San Antonio residents and grieving families on Sunday to raise awareness about the deadly threat of fentanyl poisoning, declaring the synthetic opioid a “murder type drug” and crediting Angel Moms with driving policy reforms that now classify fentanyl deaths as homicides. The event, organized by Soles Walking 4 Souls, featured memorials, Narcan distribution, and a renewed call for accountability as Texas marks October as Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month.
The discovery of sixteen deceased people found in Houston area bayous since January has sparked concerns from area residents that the deaths may be the work of a serial killer. Houston’s Mayor John Whitmire and the city’s police chief counter the argument, saying there is no evidence the deaths are connected.
Federal authorities filed multiple charges against a Cambodian gang member who allegedly shot a Texas woman. The Cambodian illegal alien is also wanted for a 2022 murder in California.
Federal immigration agents in Chicago faced two vehicular assaults in a single day—the second taking place in Bensenville—when an illegal alien rammed an ICE vehicle and fled into a residence. The incident underscores what DHS officials say is a “1000 percent spike” in attacks and a growing climate of lawlessness fueled by Illinois’s sanctuary policies.
San Antonio Independent School District officials are warning parents about a planned school walkout protest set to take place on Tuesday, October 7, during the school day. In a letter sent to the parents of Fox Tech High School students, officials state that area law enforcement has credible evidence to believe there will be an armed protest.
