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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.

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.

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.

The Democrat mayor of Houston, Texas, criticized Democrat socialist and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during a recent interview with the New York Times.

Thousands of demonstrators flooded downtown Houston on Saturday in a coordinated series of “No Kings” protests targeting President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies. Organized by the 50501 Movement—a left-wing coalition that emerged online earlier this year—the protests spanned more than a dozen locations across the Houston metro area, including City Hall, Discovery Green, and suburban communities like Katy, Pearland, and The Woodlands.

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.

A Mexican national with a violent criminal history—previously deported four times and released under Biden administration policies—was arrested Thursday after approaching ICE’s Houston Field Office armed with a knife and carrying a crack pipe. The incident, described by DHS officials as emblematic of daily threats faced by immigration officers, has reignited criticism of the administration’s handling of border security and interior enforcement.

The video of a Halloween display of what appears to portray two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents lynched from the gallows in a Houston neighborhood is inflaming political passions on social media.

Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for service and appear to have averted an ambush by the grace of God. When the deputies arrived at the location in Humble, Texas, in the dark, a man wearing all black opened fire from the woods. The lives of the deputies appeared to have been spared when the suspect’s rifle jammed and he was unable to clear it.

Law enforcement authorities quickly recaptured two illegal aliens who escaped from Border Patrol custody after allegedly choking a female agent. Officials say the attack happened while the two Mexican nationals were being transported to a detention facility. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers initially arrested the two during a multi-agency enforcement operation in the greater Houston area.

A conservative Harris County parents group reported that a left-leaning group published the social media content of high school students who are organizing a Turning Point USA(TPUSA) chapter in the Spring Branch school district. The leftist group, “Be the Change SBISD,” reportedly sent messages to its more than 700 members calling for action against sponsoring teachers and the students.

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

Federal immigration authorities arrested 822 criminal aliens and immigration violators in a sweeping weeklong operation across Southeast Texas. The operation targeted violent offenders to restore public safety to communities long plagued by cartel-linked crime and illegal reentry.

In a dramatic escalation of the federal government’s war on transnational drug cartels, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported the seizure of a record-breaking shipment of illicit drug precursor chemicals en route from China to drug cartels in Mexico — before they could be weaponized and unleashed on American streets.

The Lebanese immigrant who owns several Trump-themed restaurants in the Houston, Texas, area may be deported due to allegedly overstaying his visa, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Houston arrested more than 350 illegal alien gang members during the first six months of the Trump administration. The group of violent offenders has cumulatively been convicted of nearly 1,700 crimes.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials reported that officers and agents in the Houston area arrested more than 200 criminal alien child sex offenders in the past six months of the Trump administration. This represents a larger total than that of the entire previous fiscal year.

Three illegal aliens from El Salvador were arrested by Houston Police Department investigators after they allegedly attempted to meet up with underage girls. The arrests are part of an ongoing sting operation targeting dating apps, officials stated.

Immigration and Enforcement Operations (ICE) officers arrested nearly 1,400 criminal aliens in the Houston area in June. Officials told Breitbart Texas that these criminal aliens include 32 child predators, nine murderers, one illegal alien convicted of hijacking an airplane, and 16 cartel or gang members.

The plan to move retired space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston, Texas, is facing resistance from leftists including Dick Durbin, who has labeled the move a “heist” perpetrated by Texas. Durbin briefly introduced the “Houston, We Have a Problem” amendment to make what he calls a statement against waste.

Four Houston residents are now in jail facing charges that they exchanged money to lift U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) immigration jail detainers on people being held at the Harris County Jail. The four charged in the scheme include several employees of a bail bond company and a former ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer.

Federal prosecutors unsealed a 29-count indictment for a drug trafficking scheme after 15 people were arrested in the Southern District of Texas. Those arrested included two illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala and a Mexican national with Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) status.

Federal authorities arrested several members of a cartel-connected Houston-based drug ring that allegedly used taco trucks to store and distribute different kinds of drugs. The group reportedly moved large quantities of multiple drugs including heroin, meth, cocaine, mushrooms, pills and marijuana.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out a targeted enforcement operation last week that landed more than 400 illegal aliens in jail. During the same period, the Houston Field Office deported more than five hundred aliens who exhausted their due process and had been ordered removed from the United States.

Drivers in Houston, Texas, were shocked when a car that was being towed backwards began swerving across highway lanes.

Aurora has become the first company to successfully operate a commercial driverless trucking service on public roads. The company’s autonomous trucks are driving Texas highways between Dallas and Houston.

An apartment resident in Houston, Texas, wrestled a gun away from an alleged intruder and shot him dead Wednesday night. 

In just two weeks, U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations officers based in Houston deported 174 criminal aliens. According to the agency, the group of aliens included 24 gang members.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents recently detained more than 600 criminal illegals in Greater Houston within a single week, the department said in a press release.

Two Texas teens at this year’s RodeoHouston Junior Market Steer Auction each sold a steer for more than $600,000 each. 

Texas teens reportedly raked in nearly $1.4 million at the 2025 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, during RodeoHouston’s Junior Market Steer Auction this month.

Heavyweight legend George Foreman died on Friday at the age of 76, his family announced.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested and deported a Mexican illegal alien who is wanted in his home country for the murders of 43 college students in 2014. Officers turned the fugitive alien over to Mexican authorities at the Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas.

President Donald Trump announced an executive order during his address to a joint session of Congress renaming a wildlife refuge in Texas after murdered 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose alleged killers are illegal aliens.