The intensity of the federal response in Texas, from major operations in Houston to raids on construction sites and border checkpoints, has had a serious impact on Latino communities, it shows Arrest numbers and details of operations.
In early November, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Houston, reported the arrest of 1,505 criminal aliens.
According to a statement, these were members of transnational gangs, foreign refugees and other immigration offenders who fell into the hands of the justice system during a year 10-day deployment to southeast Texas occurring between October 22nd and 31st.
Afterwards, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) emphasized in another official communication on November 20th that In Houston alone, 3,593 undocumented immigrants were arrested.
Below, He ICE highlighted the profiles with the highest rates.
Federal immigration actions in Texas took place in a variety of contexts, such as: Inspections at workplaces and construction sites.
According to an ICE statement from early June, one of the raids occurred in South Padre Island and Brownsville (Rio Grande Valley)where officials conducted building inspections and applied for them I-9 form (verifies whether employees are authorized to work in the US).
The people who They couldn’t show that key shape were arrested and deportation proceedings are underway against them.
ICE described this in detail 25 migrant workers without work permits were arrested during the inspection between citizens of Mexico and Honduras.
One of the most striking facts about ICE’s actions in the Lone Star State is something like this One of four federal immigration arrests under the current Trump administration took place there.
According to a report by The Texas Tribune, from the Republican inauguration through July 29, 2025, ICE had made 138,068 arrests across the United States. 24% of those were in Texas.
An analysis of the quoted medium, that compared the final 18 months of the Biden administration to the first six months of Trump’s second termrevealed that in Texas:
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