Texas Governor Greg Abbott spoke to Texas National Guardsmen deployed along the border with Mexico in the days leading up to Christmas. He told the Guardsmen that more help for border security is on the way.
A school bus transporting Iraan High School cheerleaders crashed with an 18-wheeler around midnight last night leaving one passenger dead.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents working on the Rio Grande River were assaulted by Mexicans throwing rocks.
HOUSTON, Texas – A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Trooper who was nearly killed after being struck by an alleged drunk driver over Labor Day weekend is going home–just in time for Thanksgiving.
The Office of the Texas Governor is offering a cash reward up to $15,000 for information leading to the arrest of anyone connected to the execution of the San Antonio officer this past weekend. This reward will be combined to bring the total reward up to $25,000.
The sheriff-elect in one of Texas’ poorest counties reports that over 550 illegal immigrants have been found dead over the past 10 years.
Mexican cartel smugglers have been lashing out in apparent desperation at federal and state authorities during the current law enforcement surge in South Texas.
Texas is one of three states that has been warned about a potential terrorist attack on the day before the November 8 presidential election.
MCALLEN, Texas — The National Border Patrol Council is calling out a misleading video spread by social justice warriors claiming that agents were beating an illegal immigrant. The video purports to show the arrest of a combative subject who had just attacked, without provocation, an agent and a Texas State Trooper moments prior.
The remains of 54 illegal immigrants have been found in one South Texas county. The number of dead illegal immigrants found in Brooks County has increased despite a massive effort by law enforcement to find the smuggled immigrants before they are killed.
The flood of illegal immigrants crossing the border in the Rio Grande Valley are making their way northward to Texas’ poorest county – overwhelming the county’s law enforcement resources. Even with additional resources from the State of Texas and U.S. Border Patrol, the remains of at least 54 illegal immigrants who died while being smuggled around the Border Patrol checkpoint have been found in 2016.
A Texas State Senator charged with oversight on the embattled Child Protective Services agency said that one of its foster care facilities “was a brothel.”
The dead bodies of 53 illegal immigrants have been found in one Texas county after crossing the border this year. The remains of the 53, mostly Mexican and Central American nationals, represent an increase over 2015 numbers despite an effort by local, state, and federal law enforcement officials.
Members of the Texas Senate Finance Committee were incensed to hear on Wednesday that over 2,800 at-risk children have still not been seen by CPS after citizen reports of abuse or neglect. Senator John Wittmire immediately tapped the Texas Department of Public Safety to address this emergency. Of these 2,800 children, 511 are classified in the “priority one” category.
Troopers with the Department of Public Safety seized nearly $1.4 million worth of methamphetamine during two traffic stops in neighboring counties in the Texas Panhandle over the weekend.
A Fort Worth, Texas, man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly breaking into the State Capitol in Austin to deface a Civil War-era portrait.
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Investigators say a pickup truck accident in the Texas Panhandle has led to the seizure of $2.2 million in packaged marijuana found in the bed of the vehicle.
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas taxpayers will be paying higher insurance rates because of the cost of defending a nuisance lawsuit, a Waller County plaintiff’s lawyer says. Waller County has reportedly settled the lawsuit with Sandra Bland’s mother for $1.9 million. The Texas Department of Public Safety was not a party to the settlement.
ASSOCIATED PRESS — A former Texas Department of Public Safety worker must serve 18 months in prison for accepting bribes to help people in the U.S. illegally get a driver’s license.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a man who was listed on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Top Ten Most Wanted Sex Offenders list as he illegally crossed the border from Mexico.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton met with a group of truckers who are committed to help spot and report human trafficking on our nation’s highways. Law enforcement professionals and truck drivers working together has proven to be an effective tool to stop the trafficking and abuse of many young girls in this country.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission put the Obama Administration on notice with regard to requirements that must be met before Syrian refugees are resettled in the Lone Star State. This includes the prerequisite that the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement certify that “each refugee does not pose a security threat” to people of Texas.
HOUSTON, Texas — The lawyers who are defending Waller County and the State of Texas in a lawsuit brought by Sandra’s Bland’s mother are seeking a gag order in the case. One of the lawyers for Bland’s estate and Bland’s mother has been quoted repeatedly in the Houston Chronicle in recent days.
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director, Colonel Steve McCraw, told a Texas House committee that only two of Texas’ fourteen border counties are under “operational control.” No Texas border counties have been raised to the highest security level of “substantial control.”
Two Texas police officers helped a woman deliver a baby this past weekend. Their post on Facebook has gone viral.
Nearly 200,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails over the past five years. Those numbers included more than 155,000 criminal illegal aliens.
A new sheriff has been elected in South Texas’ Brooks County, a county known for its high number of illegal immigrant deaths. The new sheriff-elect is now faced with tackling that issue with very limited financial resources and an ever increasing number is illegal immigrants moving through his county.
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing orphans. He used his position in a foreign country as orphanage manager, and access to better accommodations and amenities like hot water, to lure the minor victims. One of these children was suffering from HIV.
Eight bus passengers died and more than 40 were injured following a Saturday morning crash northwest of the border city of Laredo.
Over 1 million Texans are now licensed to carry a handgun. Harris County (Houston) leads the state with nearly 150,000 licensees.
Border Patrol agents found 37 illegal aliens, including three juveniles from Mexico and Honduras, in a “Goddess of Death” shrine adorned stash house in Edinburg, Texas, on Monday.
Law enforcement officers, public officials, family members and supporters gathered at the Texas Capitol on Monday to honor peace officers who lost their lives during 2015.
A Republican candidate for state representative filed a lawsuit seeking the right to use legislative videos taken during proceedings of the Texas House of Representatives in his campaign advertising. He claims that the videos highlight votes and positions that his opponent incumbent Wayne Smith (R-Baytown) has taken that are inconsistent with what Smith tells constituents.
The border surge that started under then Texas Governor Rick Perry and was expanded by Governor Greg Abbott is saving lives, say officials with a South Texas sheriff’s office.
A federal district judge in San Antonio has issued an order stopping a Texas law criminalizing the harboring of illegal aliens, at least for now. The judge issued the preliminary injunction in MALDEF’s (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) lawsuit challenging Texas House Bill 11, a law which open border advocates are fighting because they say it improperly targets illegal alien shelters and those who rent to illegal aliens.
A former employee of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has pleaded guilty on federal charges of providing fraudulent Texas Driver Licenses to illegal aliens. Jose A. Ytuarte, 54, pleaded guilty in a San Antonio federal court to one
Truckers have partnered-up with the Attorney General of Texas to fight human trafficking in the Lone Star State.
Protesters were outside the Waller County, Texas courthouse when Brian Encinia, a former Texas state trooper, pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor court of perjury in connection with the arrest of Sandra Bland.
After a fight to get a polling place on campus, students turned out at Sandra Bland’s alma mater and voted out two incumbents in the prominently white area. The recent election in Texas highlights the power of university students being allowed to vote in local area elections.
Hillary Clinton is in Chicago on Wednesday to court the minority vote and use the suicide of a young black woman in a Texas jail to do so. The mother of Sandra Bland is expected to join her at the rally in a Bronzeville, Illinois, neighborhood.
