Pedro Pascal is just one of many stars who signed on to the letter calling for the closure of the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

Celebrities sign letter demanding closure of Dilley detention center near San Antonio

Madonna, Pedro Pascal, Ms. Rachel, John Legend, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Billy Porter, Susan Sarandon and others are asking the feds to close the family detention site.

by Stephanie Koithan March 30, 2026March 30, 2026

A 54-year-old woman from Edinburg holds her hands as she poses for a photo at her home in the Rio Grande Valley on March 18, 2026. After suffering a bad fall in October, she refused to go to the hospital over fears she could be deported.

Texas News

‘Don’t take me to the hospital’: Undocumented immigrants in Texas are delaying medical care

Since Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas hospitals to start asking patients for their citizenship status in November 2024, reported visits by undocumented immigrants have dropped.

by Colleen DeGuzman, Stephen Simpson, Terry Langford and Dan Keemahill, The Texas Tribune March 30, 2026March 30, 2026

San Antonio News

Thousands rally in downtown San Antonio as ‘No Kings’ protests set record turnout

Saturday’s anti-Trump action included 3,300 rallies across all 50 states. Organizers billed it as the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history.

by Sanford Nowlin March 28, 2026March 28, 2026

Reeking of desperation? No, not John Cornyn!

News

All locations of Texas’ Trump Burger chain have changed their names

The burger business has been mired in legal troubles over the past year, and two of its owners were arrested by ICE.

by Stephanie Koithan March 26, 2026March 26, 2026

Construction equipment and cars are parked outside of the Camp East Montana, an immigration detention facility, at Fort Bliss in El Paso on Sept. 7, 2025.

Texas News

Measles spike in federal detention facility reaches the Texas public, records show

Most of the state’s measles cases reported so far this year are inside the West Texas Detention Facility in Hudspeth County, where four infected El Paso residents worked.

by Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune March 26, 2026March 26, 2026

ICE shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez of San Antonio during a traffic incident nearly a year ago.

San Antonio News

House Oversight members want probe into death of San Antonio man Ruben Ray Martinez

Two congressman accuse the Department of Homeland Security and the Texas Department of Public Safety of covering up ICE’s involvement in the shooting.

by Sanford Nowlin March 24, 2026March 24, 2026

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel conduct a removal operation in LA last year.

San Antonio News

San Antonio’s ICE field office conducted agency’s fourth-highest number of arrests this year

If the Alamo City office continues its current pace, its number of arrests will rise 60% over last year, a New York Times data analysis shows.

by Sanford Nowlin March 23, 2026March 23, 2026

Federal agents carry out arrests of undocumented immigrants on the Minneapolis streets in January.

Immigration

Trump has detained the parents of more than 11,000 U.S. citizen kids

Trump administration officials revised a document advising how ICE officers should interact with parents, removing the word ‘humane.’

by Jeff Ernsthausen, Mario Ariza, McKenzie Funk, Mica Rosenberg and Gabriel SandovalMarch 23, 2026March 23, 2026

A single vaccine can protect against measles, mumps and rubella.

Texas News

147 measles cases reported in Texas so far this year, most of them in federal detention centers

The state health department reports that 99 of the cases originated in a contracted detention facility in Hudspeth County.

by Alex Nguyen and Dan Keemahill, The Texas TribuneMarch 19, 2026March 19, 2026

San Antonio News

Judge ends asylum claim for Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old arrested by ICE, orders his deportation

If the family loses their appeal, they could be sent back to Ecuador, their country of origin.

by Stephanie Koithan March 19, 2026March 19, 2026

San Antonio News

Dilley immigrant prison camp clamps down on video calls in further censorship of detainees

The most recent move at the ICE lockup near San Antonio comes after a viral video call between a 9-year-old detainee and popular children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel.

by Stephanie Koithan March 18, 2026March 18, 2026

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas on Sept. 24, 2025.

Texas News

Afghan man with pending asylum case dies in ICE custody in Dallas

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

by Alejandro Serrano and Alex Nguyen, The Texas TribuneMarch 16, 2026March 16, 2026

The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley has been at the center of national outrage.

San Antonio News

Attorney for migrants in Dilley lockup says people, not politicos, will decide when the cruelty ends

Attorney Eric Lee says the 9-month detention of an Egyptian family in the site near San Antonio shows a rot in the system that goes deeper than Trump.

by Stephanie Koithan March 14, 2026March 19, 2026

Juan Rodriguez lights a candle beside a photograph of his fiancée, Johanny Lacruz, whose return he prays for each night after she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Lacruz, a Venezuelan woman who entered the U.S. through the CBP One app, is currently being held at a detention facility in Raymondville.

Texas News

After Monica De La Cruz helps migrant teen in ICE custody, Texas man seeks aid for fiancée

The Republican in Congress helped a migrant teenager she previously knew get released from federal custody. Scores of migrants are in similar situations with no clear exit.

by Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune March 14, 2026March 14, 2026

Members of Bexar County Commissioners Court deliberate during a meeting earlier this year.

San Antonio News

Bexar County Commissioners voice opposition to ICE’s planed East Side detention site

The county passed the largely symbolic resolution as the agency prepares to open a San Antonio ‘processing center’ that could house up to 1,500 migrants.

by Sanford Nowlin March 10, 2026March 10, 2026

San Antonio News

As controversy rages, Dilley detention site drastically reduces inmate population

The population inside the immigrant prison camp southwest of San Antonio has declined by almost 60% since late January, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro says.

by Stephanie Koithan March 10, 2026March 10, 2026

Texas News

South Texas student mariachis detained by ICE

The ‘best trumpet player’ in Texas is being detained by himself in Raymondville. The rest of the family is locked up in the San Antonio-area Dilley facility.

by Stephanie Koithan March 9, 2026March 9, 2026

South Padre Island Police Department body cam footage, released by Texas Department of Public Safety late Friday, shows the moment when 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez from San Antonio was killed at South Padre Island in March 2025.

San Antonio News

Footage shows run-up to immigration officer’s fatal shooting of San Antonio man

The clips, from multiple angles, don’t include everything, including key audio. But lawyers for the man’s family argue they refute the Trump administration’s explanation that his killing was self-defense.

By Lomi Kriel and Ayden Runnels, The Texas TribuneMarch 7, 2026March 7, 2026

Kristi Noem makes a sad face during an interview.

San Antonio News

Texas Dems cheer Noem’s firing but say it won’t halt Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda

‘Despite her removal, Trump’s cruel mass deportation campaign rages on,’ Rep. Joaquin Castro said. ‘The Congress must hold her and her successor accountable.’

by Sanford Nowlin March 5, 2026March 5, 2026

The Camp East Montana detention facility, located on the outskirts of El Paso at Fort Bliss, is seen on Sept. 7, 2025.

Texas News

ICE moving toward closing El Paso detention camp, report says

The Washington Post reported that a document was distributed to ICE staff indicating the agency was drafting a letter to potentially terminate the facility’s $1.2 billion contract.

by Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune March 5, 2026March 5, 2026