The recent ICE recruit was issued a body camera, reports said. It’s not clear why he was not using the device during the Sunday shooting.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was discharged after four hours into ICE custody and taken 135 miles to an immigration detention center.

Authorities say the driver of a truck allegedly rammed into an ICE vehicle before crashing into a tree while attempting to flee immigration authorities in Galveston.

Some detained Texans were pursuing pathways to stay here legally. None had criminal convictions.

People who work near the site where ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez say the agency’s presence in the area has been constant amid President Trump’s mass deportation push.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez legally entered the country in 2024 via the CBP One app and applied for asylum, his attorneys said. But he missed a court hearing after the notice went to the wrong address.

The shooting in Austin, which injured Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, came more than two months after an ICE officer fatally shot a man in Houston.

The grant program was created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which became law in July 2025.

For La Union del Pueblo Entero’s biennial convention, members under 45 years old made up the largest share of participants.

Minnesota prosecutors accused Christian Castro of injuring a Venezuelan man and lying about what led to the shooting. He also faces federal charges.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a major immigration rule that could have affected thousands of international students attending universities in Houston.

In a statement Monday night, university officials indirectly addressed Bo French’s comments, calling students at the game Saturday night “incredible fans.”

Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, made the comments at a private lunch in Austin, according to attendees.

The Trump administration has said the remote West Texas region needs measures to stop illegal immigration. But a bipartisan group of elected officials is pushing to halt that plan, especially in the national park.

French, the Republican nominee for a statewide position regulating Texas’ oil and gas industry, posted a photo of University of Texas students, while decrying “foreigners” displacing Americans.

According to an indictment, Investigators say Alla Nowowiejski accepted payments from clients seeking help, then establishing or adjusting their immigration status and applying for work visas. Prosecutors allege she failed to submit the applications or submitted only portions of them.

If not carefully vetted, candidates’ proposals to lower costs could exacerbate future affordability issues, experts say.

Nearly, two months after losing their father, the Salgado brothers said their lives have been turned upside down — and they are not staying quiet.

The federal government let U.S. citizen Brian José Morales García return to Texas on Sunday after deporting him to Mexico following a traffic stop in Central Texas.

Victor Salgado, the brother of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot by ICE agents, is the third witness to be released from detention.

Brian José Morales García maintained he was born in Denver after the federal government accused him of having entered the country illegally.

Sean Teare said feds still aren’t cooperating with his investigation. A separate federal filing claims DPS provided the tip ICE agents were pursuing.

Christian Castro was released a day after a federal judge rejected Minnesota’s bid to keep him jailed while Gov. Greg Abbott decides whether to sign extradition papers.

TribCast is joined by state Sen. César Blanco and politics reporter Alejandro Serrano to discuss the growing bipartisan outrage over building border barriers in Texas' largest national park.

The Texas governor said he has doubts Christian Castro is a fugitive subject to extradition, adding the state is still investigating. A hearing on keeping him in custody is Tuesday.

The state — which spent over $11 billion on Operation Lone Star — could receive more through a separate $3.5 billion reimbursement fund administered by the Department of Justice.

After bulldozers entered Big Bend National Park, hundreds of Texans came to Wednesday’s meeting to ask the agency to keep federal border barriers out of state parks.

Christian Castro, accused of assault and lying about the circumstance leading to the Jan. 14 shooting, was arrested in Cameron County in May.

It was not immediately clear how long CBP plans to implement the pause. The Trump administration had announced plans to build an access road and vehicle barriers in the park.

A tribal nonprofit and an outdoor recreation company filed the federal lawsuit, arguing the work threatens archeological sites and sacred grounds.

An irrigation district claims border wall construction is damaging its property and canal.

Aaron Reitz did not reveal what FBI testing found in bags taken from Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van after his July 7 shooting death. Other men in the van said the bags contained salt.

Everyday tasks like buying groceries or taking kids to the park now bring life-changing risks. “We couldn’t go out because they were hunting us,” a Honduran mother said.

The nation’s only detention center for families is routinely holding children beyond the 20-day limit, including an Iranian-born “average American kid” who’s been locked up for 123 days and counting.

A man who called Houston Police to report a shooting was detained by federal immigration agents at the scene and the Harris County District Attorney is now speaking out.

Immigration officials denied the allegations, but Reps. Joaquin Castro and Veronica Escobar said they’ve come across numerous problematic examples.

The federal agent said he shot the man in self defense last December amid a fight that erupted after agents tried to arrest the migrants who were retreating to Mexico.

Dawn Buckingham said a contractor hired by U.S. Customs and Border Protection trespassed and significantly altered land in Presidio County without permission.

Many of the roughly 80,000 Texas residents in the program are facing renewal delays that can leave them undocumented, unable to legally work and exposed to possible deportation.

A $10 million claim by Elton Purvis, who was held in Texas for seven months before his deportation, is part of the group’s allegations that immigrants’ medical and other needs were neglected.

KPRC 2 asked Houston Mayor John Whitmire directly what options Houston leaders have to protect undocumented immigrants with no criminal record from being detained.

Republican business leaders said immigration raids on the Latino community would be top of mind at the ballot box in the midterm elections.

A federal judge on Monday ordered that Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego be released within 48 hours. He was one of three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE.

The FBI suggested plastic bags in the van contained methamphetamine. The agency hasn’t released official test results.

Mealer, the GOP nominee in Texas’ 9th Congressional District, would represent Houston’s Magnolia Park, where an ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, under the GOP’s new redistricting map.

After being detained by ICE last month, Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja, a 56-year-old nun from Nigeria, could be detained again or subjected to constant monitoring.

Despite ICE crackdowns, experts say immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. Deportation fears might also make them less likely to report them.

Residents along the U.S.-Mexico border said they want crossings under control and the state’s next senator to actually do something on immigration policy.

Christian and Jewish leaders urged limits on using force as well as accountability for immigration agents who go too far.

State and community leaders are working to keep the reVision soccer nonprofit alive after it was featured at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The newly released, handwritten statements by two men who saw Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s shooting say he never threatened ICE agents.

Two men who were inside the van when federal immigration agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo have been formally certified by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office as victims of alleged violent crimes, according to newly filed federal court documents.

The order applies to one of the three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE. Lawyers are seeking the men’s release from detention.

Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.

The first report on police-ICE interactions required by the City Council shows Houston transferred 18% of people with immigration-related warrants to ICE custody.

The buoys had forced the closure of two bridges near Eagle Pass for about three hours on Thursday when Rio Grande levels rose.

As his sons greeted visitors near the casket of their father, who was killed in an ICE operation, some at the public visitation said they knew him well — even if they’d never met him.

The rule allows the federal government to deny green cards to immigrants who use a public program, such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers.

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, whose office is running an investigation into the shooting, also expressed doubt that there were drugs in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the governor and other top Republican state leaders largely avoided commenting on it.

More than a dozen attorneys and former law enforcement officials reviewed footage of the deadly ICE car pursuit for The Texas Tribune. They said ICE’s tactics were breaking with best practice and possibly the law.

As Latino and immigrant communities mourn the death of a Houston man, undocumented neighbors remain in hiding for fear of being next.

Texas officials have sued a Houston area postpartum center as well as investigated Rio Grande Valley hospitals over allegations of soliciting foreigners to have babies on U.S. soil.

“There is no point in pretending that ICE is here to protect us,” a resident told the City Council in its first meeting since an immigration agent killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

In this week's episode, our hosts speak with Texas Tribune reporters Uriel J. García and Colleen DeGuzman about the unanswered questions and investigations in response to the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Houston photographer Violeta Álvarez joined Houston Life to share “Casa de Cultura,” a free Fresh Arts Gallery exhibition at Sawyer Yards running July 9–August 22. The show begins with “Luz y Sombra", her iconic music photography then becomes “Con Sangre y Corazón,” a live, interactive archive where visitors can contribute portraits, Polaroids, and handwrite family stories on the gallery walls.

U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee of Houston said the reported pause was not enough: “A temporary training won’t solve a deeply ingrained problem.”

As attorney general, Paxton threw unprecedented resources into stopping Biden’s agenda. That record is his sword and shield as he runs for U.S. Senate.

Mexico’s president said her government will file complaints and lawsuits over 17 deaths related to U.S. immigration enforcement.

Federal agencies and investigators have offered limited information, prompting calls for outside scrutiny.

Protesters demanded feds release footage of the shooting and the three men who were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo before he was killed.

ICE’s shift from using jails to find undocumented immigrants to arresting people on the streets risks violent encounters, experts say, such as the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Almost none of the state’s major Republican officials have weighed in on the killing of a Houston man by federal agents, and U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston said she had not spoken with Gov. Greg Abbott.

"They control the scene, the deceased, the van, the witnesses. So yes, they control the investigation," Mayor John Whitmire said.

The other men in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo told their lawyer that agents fired into the vehicle unprovoked, according to the Washington Post.

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston said ICE’s acting director told her that agents were not wearing body cameras and promised that they would start soon.

The wall would have blocked parishioners from reaching La Lomita chapel. A state representative has put a stop to those plans.

HOUSTON

Two days after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a man during an enforcement operation in Houston’s East End, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed there is no body camera footage because the officers involved were not wearing body-worn cameras.

District Attorney Sean Teare said he is in contact with prosecutors in Minnesota who are investigating the January shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents.

Four members of Congress demand that ICE and Homeland Security release evidence supporting its claims that an ICE agent shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in self-defense.

Most migrant deaths in Texas have occurred while they were detained since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown. Several were from natural causes.

Speakers at the vigil and a statement from Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family elevated calls for an independent investigation into his death and raised doubts about ICE’s description of events.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire stated the city cannot investigate the fatal ICE shooting in Magnolia Park because the Houston Police Department was not involved and lacks jurisdiction.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family, federal lawmakers and community advocates are pushing for local scrutiny, expressing distrust in federal officials.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s son said his father would not have tried to flee a law enforcement stop. Local leaders say they’ve received little information from federal officials about the shooting.

White House Border Czar Tom Homan said ICE is making record arrests following a funding boost, with further increases expected as more agents complete training. His comments come amid controversy over a fatal ICE shooting in Houston involving Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who ICE said tried to flee and used his vehicle against agents before being shot.

The agency said the man was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. His son said he’d lived here for 35 years and was attempting to obtain a work permit.

Last month, the Texas Republican Party included in its platform a ban on foreigners using American surrogates, arguing the practice allows children born under these circumstances to obtain U.S. citizenship.

Immigration rights experts worry that the recent inquiry is the latest sign Trump is interested in transferring unaccompanied minors to the state, where it is easier to quickly deport them.

Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at Camp East Montana in West Texas. Records indicate the facility's staff failed to respond adequately.

The 2-1 ruling stems from the detention of three longtime Texas residents. The Trump administration argued they didn’t deserve a bond hearing because the government plans to deport them.

The GOP nominee for the state’s oil and gas commission said Texas should not recognize babies born to immigrant parents as citizens.

ICE detained the 56-year-old nun from Nigeria on Sunday but released her later that day after federal lawmakers intervened.

The court’s ruling means children born to undocumented immigrants in the U.S. will continue to be citizens.

Completing a pilgrimage from a World War II internment camp in Crystal City, activists said history is repeating itself with family detentions at the Dilley facility.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices green-lit the practice of limiting the number of people who can apply for asylum each day.

Webb County’s medical examiner said Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez died from “natural causes,” although the full autopsy is pending. He’s at least the fifth person to die in Texas ICE detention this year.

A federal judge cited Texas’ use of the SAVE database, which flagged several voters who were actually citizens, and said the checks violated privacy and voting rights.

Republican Bo French is keeping Islam, immigration and LGBTQ+ issues at the fore of his campaign for Texas’ oil regulatory agency. Democratic foe Jon Rosenthal is betting on his technical expertise.