Border & Immigration

ICE inspectors in February found 49 violations to detention standards at Camp East Montana, including failure from staff to"accurately document required checks to prevent significant self-harm and suicide."

The president announced the judicial nominations of two prosecutors in the Houston-based Southern District of Texas on Truth Social Wednesday. Trump lauded their commitments to prosecuting immigration and border-related crime.

Community leader and Southern Methodist University graduate Omar Salazar, who was taken into ICE custody last September, will not be allowed to stay in the U.S. An immigration judge granted him "voluntary departure," and Salazar will leave without facing deportation.

Tuesday's ruling reinstates the immigration status of those who came via CBP One and whose status was terminated.

Fort Worth-area congressman Marc Veasey toured the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Alvarado Tuesday.

Waller County, near Houston, was the second fastest growing county in the U.S. Another three Texas counties were among the 10 fastest growing in U.S.

Officials approved the change after hearing from speakers who argued it would hamper the state’s economy and push immigrants to work without licenses in the black market.

Leqaa Kordia was arrested last year after she participated in protests at Columbia University against Israel's war in Gaza. Speaking at a news conference in New Jersey over the weekend, she said she will continue her activism — and her legal fight to stay in the U.S.

Resistance in both Democratic and Republican cities points to broader unease with the direction of immigration enforcement.

Leqaa Kordia left the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado Monday afternoon after just over a year in immigration custody. She was the last Columbia University protester in detention.

Deportations of Mexicans dropped to 144,000 in 2025, roughly half the annual figure under President Biden, according to data analyzed by Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative news organization. President Trump's beefed-up border security may have deterred many from Mexico from attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died Saturday morning at a Dallas hospital, one day after being taken into custody by ICE.