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The Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass reopened its doors almost one week after a deadly shooting claimed the lives of two people and injured six others on Sunday. The Native American-owned casino opened its doors on Friday morning, according to a social media post made on Wednesday.

Two people were killed, and six others were injured in a shooting at the Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass, Texas, early Sunday morning. Among the dead was Marcus “Mark” Antley, a well-known resident and retired U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer.

An employee at a district attorney’s office in South Texas will spend up to three years in federal prison for using a government vehicle to smuggle migrants.

FBI Director Kash Patel reported that the man who shot at an ICE facility in Dallas on Wednesday morning had an “idealogical {sic} motive.” At least one of the bullets loaded in a clip had “Anti-ICE” marked on the shell casing.

A now-former student from Texas State University San Marcos posted a GoFundMe page after dropping out of the school following his mocking of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. He now claims he “made a mistake in the heat of the moment.”

In a striking show of solidarity and grief, more than two thousand mourners gathered Monday night at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to honor slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Turning Point USA’s UTSA Chapter President Jack Harrell said Kirk’s assassination last week at Utah Valley University ignited a surge in campus activism and doubled local chapter membership within days.

A man who is allegedly a student at Texas State University San Marcos is seen in a video mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The man can be seen pretending to be shot in the neck and collapsing. The incident occurred on Monday during a Charlie Kirk vigil on the San Marcos, Texas, campus.

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper died Monday night in a fiery crash on an East Texas farm road. The trooper was responding to a call for assistance from San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office deputies.

Governor Greg Abbott said Texas Tech University student Camryn Giselle Booker “picked the wrong school to taunt the death of Charlie Kirk.” Booker was not only arrested, but Texas Tech expelled her from the university.

A 37-year-old illegal alien from Cuba is in the Dallas County jail after he allegedly decapitated a man at an area motel. A video shows the man carrying what appears to be a blood-dripping severed head across the motel parking lot and throwing it into a dumpster. The Cuban national with a lengthy violent criminal history was released by the Biden administration into Texas on January 13 — one week before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, according to ICE.

A Facebook post by Houston’s ABC13 news station announcing President Donald Trump’s plan to award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom ignited a wave of vitriolic reactions. Hundreds of leftist commenters openly celebrate the conservative speaker’s assassination and mock

Texas leaders are mourning the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot during a speaking event at Utah Valley University, calling the act “unspeakable evil” and a “senseless assassination.” From Governor Greg Abbott to Senator Ted Cruz, officials across the Lone Star State condemned the killing and praised Kirk’s legacy as a bold voice for American youth, faith, and freedom. The outpouring of grief underscores Kirk’s deep ties to Texas and the growing alarm over political violence nationwide.

A spokesman for Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Breitbart Texas that truckers operating commercial vehicles in the Lone Star State should “fully comply” with a presidential executive order requiring English proficiency.

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agents teamed up with police in Stafford, Texas, to raid a suspected illegal marijuana warehouse last week. During the raid, agents arrested 18 illegal aliens who were working illegally in the warehouse.

A report published last week on social media by American Truckers United shows that Texas companies lead the nation in employing drivers who are not proficient in reading and understanding English. Recent crashes, including a multi-fatality crash in the state’s capital city earlier this year, raised the issue to the forefront.

Effective September 1, those engaged in human trafficking in Texas will face up to 99 years in prison if convicted. Earlier this month, Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 2306 and SB 1212 into law, making human trafficking a first-degree felony and denying parole to those convicted in some circumstances.

A quick response by dozens of San Antonio fire units to an industrial complex on Monday kept a chemical fire near the city’s international airport from becoming an industrial catastrophe. The fire at a factory that refurbishes aircraft parts resulted in the spill of 1,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals, causing the evacuation of several businesses in the area.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump met first responders and grieving families in Kerrville, Texas, on Friday ahead of a roundtable with local officials after flooding ravaged the Texas Hill Country last week, leaving extreme death and destruction in its wake.

More than 1.5 million Texas households were without power Monday morning as Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the state’s central coast. Beryl’s eye crossed the Texas coastline early Monday near Matagorda, Texas.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former President Donald Trump spoke out Saturday against the Texas House of Representatives’ attempt to impeach Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Arizona’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee, Blake Masters, spent Wednesday on the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma County, where he saw dozens of border crossers being detained by officials.

A group of 20 Cuban migrants crossed the Rio Grande in the heart of downtown Eagle Pass, Texas, intent on crossing through the recently installed shipping container border barrier. A Breitbart Texas video shows the group crossing the river and entering the United States illegally on Saturday.

President Joe Biden’s administration intends to nearly double deportation flights to Haiti to six or seven by Wednesday.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) requested that Vice President Kamala Harris brief the House Republican caucus on the “national security crisis” happening at the Southern Border.

The status quo of illegal immigration under the Biden administration “is as bad as it’s ever been,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.

Former President Donald Trump announced he accepted an invitation to visit the “Nation’s decimated Southern Border” with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on an official visit before Vice President Kamala Harris has made any plans to visit.

The U.S. border patrol chief defended the Biden administration’s decision to release illegal migrant family units without a court date.

Vice President Harris, tapped by President Joe Biden to fix the border crisis, compared ICE to the KKK, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) noted Friday. 

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called out Vice President Kamala Harris over the border crisis late on Wednesday, requesting that the Biden Administration grant media access to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities dealing with the influx of unaccompanied children and other migrants.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reportedly failed to test 2,000 migrants before they were released into a small town on the Texas border after illegally entering the country.

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) closed an account with Bank of China following a Breitbart News report on his holdings with the state-run bank.

Texas officials report that 1.77 million residents remain without drinkable water following the winter storm that devastated the Lone Star State last week. At the peak, more than half the state’s population (14.8 million) had no water or were under boil notices.

Plumbers from out of state are needed in Texas to help repair frozen pipes, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said on Friday.

Rep. Chip Roy told Breitbart News on Friday that the Biden administration’s and Democrats’ amnesty legislation is “dead on arrival” and is a “sop to the radical left.”

Joe Biden’s stated plan to release over 25,000 migrants seeking refugee status into the U.S. presents “an imminent danger” to Texas, said Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.), chairman of the Texas Republican Party, on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Texas had seen a steady decline in the seven-day average of new Chinese coronavirus cases, deaths, hospitalizations, and test positivity rates as of Thursday afternoon.