A targeted federal immigration enforcement operation turned into a foot pursuit and vehicle collision in Harris County, Texas, on Saturday morning after a multi-time deported illegal alien with a history of drunk driving arrests fled federal agents.
Department of Homeland Security officials report that a criminal illegal alien with a history of violence and dangerous gang affiliations was shot on Thursday afternoon by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. The Dominican national was arrested by the NYPD in December 2023 but was released a few days later “by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk,” DHS officials stated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. Border Patrol agents performing duties near Niagara Falls, New York, encountered 48-year-old Pablo Ordonez-Melendez, a Honduran illegal alien. The Buffalo Sector agents investigated Ordonez-Melendez’s immigration and criminal history and discovered the Honduran national was no stranger to the U.S. criminal justice system.
The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office released the ICE officer who is wanted in Minnesota for an officer-involved shooting incident. The release came after Texas Governor Greg Abbott did not sign the rendition extradition requested by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers deported a pair of fugitive illegal aliens from Mexico who are wanted in separate homicide incidents. One of the Mexican illegal aliens was released into the U.S. by the Biden administration despite an active homicide warrant from Mexico.
Amidst the turmoil surrounding the shooting of a Mexican national in Houston earlier this month, officers of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) branch continue to arrest and remove criminal aliens from the streets of the Bayou City. From July 1-15, ERO officers arrested nearly 260 criminal aliens.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Houston report that a criminal illegal alien who is described as an aggravated felon barricaded himself inside a house in a Houston suburb to avoid arrest.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Mexican illegal alien in Houston on Tuesday. The shooting came during a targeted enforcement operation where the Mexican national allegedly attempted to flee and then reportedly attempted to run over an officer with his vehicle.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials revealed that 735 criminal illegal aliens arrested in the Houston area last month accounted for more than 1,700 criminal convictions — with nearly 1,200 involving violent crimes or threats to public safety. The arrests included murderers, rapists, child predators, arsonists, drug traffickers, and members of MS‑13, Surenos 13, 18th Street, Tango Blast, and other brutal gangs.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers deported a 28-year-old Mexican national after an investigation showed the illegal alien from Mexico tried to fraudulently transfer her newborn baby to another individual because of a debt to smugglers. Maria Lidia Valle-Hernandez is now back home in Mexico.
GEORGE BUSH INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT, Texas — Passengers at Houston’s largest airport felt an immediate and positive impact as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrived to work alongside unpaid TSA agents. Screening lines that stretched to about four hours, according to airport officials, were reduced to about an hour when the ICE officers’ shift began.
ICE agents in Houston arrested 414 criminal illegal aliens accused or convicted of child sex crimes during President Donald Trump’s first year back in office, almost twice the number taken off the streets during President Joe Biden’s last year. The group accounted for 761 child sex offenses and 525 other crimes, from homicide to robbery, according to ICE.
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.
A Portland, Oregon, man pleaded guilty to his role in the violent assault of a U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) officer in June 2025. Robert Jacob Hoopes pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of a federal employee with a dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury on Wednesday.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials released new details on arrests made one day this week during the continuing Operation Metro Surge. The DHS report identifies multiple criminal illegal aliens taken into custody on Tuesday in Minnesota for crimes ranging from homicide and rape to child abuse and domestic violence. The agency said sanctuary jurisdictions continue to obstruct efforts to remove dangerous offenders.
ICE officials say the killing of 15‑year‑old Amber Paris was “entirely preventable,” blaming Charlotte’s sanctuary policies for allowing repeat‑offender illegal alien Julio Cesar Xocop‑Vicente to walk free on bond after he allegedly sped through a neighborhood, ran a stop sign, struck the teen, and fled the scene.
Texas’s new immigration‑enforcement law hit the state like a shockwave this morning, wiping out any remaining sanctuary‑style defiance by ordering every county sheriff to partner with ICE formally. The mandatory 287(g) crackdown is designed to hard‑wire deportation cooperation into every jail from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande.
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.
A Salvadoran illegal alien released by Fairfax County in defiance of an ICE detainer is now charged with murdering a man in Reston less than a day later—an avoidable killing, federal officials say, that happened only because local authorities refused to hand him over to immigration agents.
Federal prosecutors and Homeland Security officials vowed zero tolerance for violence against law enforcement after a criminal illegal alien from Mexico was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a brutal assault on an ICE officer in Wichita, Kansas. The sentence is the maximum penalty allowed for this charge under federal law.
Federal immigration teams in New Orleans this week arrested dozens of criminal aliens accused of violent and predatory crimes, including rapists, thieves, human smugglers, domestic abusers, and child endangerers. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said the operation was part of a nationwide push to dismantle sanctuary protections and remove “the worst of the worst” from American communities, underscoring President Trump’s directive to prioritize public safety in deportation efforts.
Michigan is about to become ground zero in America’s immigration fight as federal enforcement operations and detention capacity expand. At the same time, President Trump unveils sweeping plans to permanently halt migration from Third World countries and reverse millions of Biden‑era admissions following the murder of a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C., allegedly by a refugee from Afghanistan.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Buffalo officers in New York arrested a 39‑year‑old Turkish illegal alien who reportedly violently resisted arrest, tried to seize an officer’s taser, and shouted “Allahu Akbar” during a Nov. 5 enforcement operation. The suspect, Saim Irgi, had previously been released into the United States without vetting by the Biden administration after crossing illegally from Mexico in 2023. Since his release into the U.S., he racked up a violent criminal history in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to ICE officials.
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.
In yet another smear against the DHS-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and officers conducting targeted enforcement operations to deport criminal illegal aliens, the House Homeland Security Committee Democrats accused the Department of Homeland Security of lying in a Friday X repost of a video saying, “DHS will lie. They always do.” The video purports to show a man having a medical seizure as ICE agents arrest his wife.
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.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) “deliberately misrepresented the facts” surrounding the arrest of a Colombian illegal alien arrested at a Chicago-area preschool. The illegal alien and her male friend driver fled from ICE officers and ran into the daycare.
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.
