Large tents at the East Montana Detention Facility, an ICE detention center at Fort Bliss in El Paso.

Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility

Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many ‘chronic issues.’

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune February 8, 2026February 8, 2026

Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many ‘chronic issues.’

An aerial view of the East Montana Detention Facility, the ICE detention center built to house up to 5,000 people, at Fort Bliss in El Paso on Sept. 7, 2025.

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After a death at an El Paso ICE facility was ruled a homicide, will prosecutors pursue a criminal case?

Because Geraldo Lunas Campos died at a military base, the El Paso District Attorney says any criminal case may fall to federal prosecutors. But criminal law experts say the state doesn’t have to defer to them.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune January 31, 2026January 31, 2026

An aerial view of the Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss in El Paso, on Sept. 7, 2025.

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Immigrant’s death in ICE custody ruled homicide by El Paso medical examiner

Immigration officials initially said the 55-year-old Cuban detainee died of ‘medical distress’ but later changed the cause to suicide. The medical examiner ruled he was suffocated while being restrained.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune January 22, 2026January 22, 2026

Amber Hamilton walks to her car to drive to the airport after waiting through two days of flight cancellations due to icy conditions in Dallas on Feb. 2, 2023.

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An arctic storm is expected to blanket the state. Here’s what Texans can expect.

Texas is preparing for the coldest temperatures of the season, and forecasters are warning of possible power outages and icy roads in much of the state.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune January 22, 2026January 22, 2026

Austin Police Department officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents guide a van out of the J.J. Pickle Federal Building in downtown Austin on April 1, 2025.

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As immigrant arrests rise, here’s what to know about ICE operations in Texas

The Trump administration is going all in on accelerating mass deportation efforts. Here’s how ICE operations look in Texas, home to an estimated 2 million undocumented immigrants.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune January 19, 2026January 19, 2026

The Seymour Hospital on June 30, 2025. The town of Seymour is about 50 miles southwest on Wichita Falls.

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Texas to receive $281 million in federal funds for rural health care

Texas will get the biggest portion of the first rollout of the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, which was created in tandem with legislation slashing Medicaid funding.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune December 30, 2025December 30, 2025

From left to right, District Attorneys José Garza of Travis County, Sean Teare of Harris County, and Sarah Stogner of Ward County, with ProPublica’s Keri Blakinger, speaking at a panel during The Texas Tribune Festival on Nov. 15, 2025.

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As ICE ramps up deportations, Texas prosecutors say they’re losing key witnesses in criminal cases

District attorneys in Harris, El Paso and other counties say some cases, including murders, have been hobbled or lost because witnesses were detained, deported or too scared to come to court.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune December 22, 2025December 22, 2025

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers carry out an arrest as part of a nationwide enforcement sweep.

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Feds plan to build nation’s biggest migrant detention center at Texas’ Fort Bliss

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a contract to build and run a 5,000-bed tent camp at the Army base in El Paso.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune August 18, 2025August 20, 2025

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Flood relief, THC regulation and more in limbo after House Democrats leave Texas

Democrats fled the state to stop Republicans’ attempt to redraw congressional districts, but bills aimed at everything from a THC product ban to bolstering flood response are now in doubt.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune August 5, 2025August 16, 2025

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Trump’s ‘one-two punch’ targeting immigration courts will test Texas detention centers, experts warn

Moves to end bond for migrants and fire dozens of immigration judges deprive undocumented detainees of due process and may keep them in overcrowded centers longer, experts say.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune July 25, 2025July 30, 2025

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Appeals court upholds Texas law limiting ability of San Antonio, other cities to enforce local ordinances

The 2023 law, previously ruled unconstitutional by a Travis County judge, prevents cities from enforcing ordinances that don’t align with broad swaths of state law.

by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune July 19, 2025July 24, 2025