San Antonio councilman calls on public to help stop ICE detention site from opening here

Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez asked members of the public to call Oakmont Industrial Group to demand the company not sell its East Side warehouse to ICE.

by Michael Karlis February 2, 2026February 2, 2026

San Antonio News

What we saw as anti-ICE activists demonstrated Sunday outside the Dilley detention center

Nearly 100 demonstrators caravanned to the site southwest of San Antonio to call for the release of all children being held at immigration detention facilities.

by San Antonio Current Staff February 2, 2026February 6, 2026

DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend.

San Antonio News

Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE’s Dilley family detention facility

ICE officials informed members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the outbreak, immigration attorney Eric Lee said.

by Stephanie Koithan February 1, 2026February 1, 2026

Texas News

The week’s San Antonio and Texas news — in limericks

Because who doesn’t enjoy seeing the state’s most pathetic politicians mocked in verse?

by Sanford Nowlin January 31, 2026January 31, 2026

Texas News

Federal judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who in his ruling accused the feds of incompetence, ordered that Ramos and his father be release by Tuesday.

by Michael Karlis January 31, 2026January 31, 2026

San Antonio News

Everyone we saw taking to San Antonio’s streets during Friday’s ICE Out protest

by San Antonio Current Staff January 30, 2026February 4, 2026

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is weighing another presidential run.

News

Sen. Ted Cruz calls for arming Iranian protesters and disarming America’s

‘We should be arming the protesters in Iran. NOW,’ the Texas Republican tweeted. The same week, he said the ICE slaying of Alex Pretti was justified due to his concealed-carry weapon.

by Stephanie Koithan January 30, 2026January 30, 2026

A Customs and Border Patrol agent guards a fence outside an ICE detention center in Chicago.

San Antonio News

ICE reportedly close to buying San Antonio warehouse to turn into new detention center

Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert said he’s ready to fight the plan and urged San Antonio officials to deny a zoning request for the facility.

by Sanford Nowlin January 30, 2026January 30, 2026

Texas News

U.S. agrees not to deport 6 witnesses in homicide of migrant held in Texas center

The 55-year-old man died Jan. 3 at an ICE lockup in El Paso after being ‘physically restrained by law enforcement,’ the El Paso medical examiner ruled.

by Sanford Nowlin January 28, 2026January 28, 2026

Gov. Greg Abbott puts on a happy face during one of his U.S. border cosplay sessions.

Assclown Alert

Assclown Alert: Urging ICE to ‘recalibrate’ with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

Abbott’s remark is a bloodless cop-out meant to distance himself from a catastrophe he’s cheered on.

by Sanford Nowlin January 28, 2026January 28, 2026

Masked ICE agents arrest a man during a raid last year in Arlington, Virginia.

Texas News

South Texas construction group accuses ICE of warrantless raids, endangering neighborhoods

The top official with the South Texas Builders Association said ICE agents have been captured on video speeding through subdivisions and putting kids at risk.

by Sanford Nowlin January 27, 2026January 27, 2026

Mourners visit a makeshift memorial at the site where federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 25, 2026.

Texas News

GOP Sen. Cruz, Rep. McCaul call for investigation after federal agents fatally shoot man in Minneapolis

Other Texas Republicans have called for the Trump administration to double down on sending immigration officers to Minnesota and blamed Democrats for the violence, while others have remained silent.

by Gabby Birenbaum, The Texas Tribune January 27, 2026January 27, 2026

News

After weekend’s ICE killing, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott becomes latest Republican to distance himself

Following the slaying of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti, Abbott says ICE must ‘recalibrate’ its mission and stop ‘causing all the kinds of problems and fighting in communities.’

by Stephanie Koithan January 26, 2026January 26, 2026

The Texas Observer identified the operator of the online GlomarResponder account as James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, who works as an assistant chief counsel for ICE in the Dallas area.

Texas News

Congressman tries to cut pay of ICE prosecutor with racist X account to $1

Last week, the prosecutor James Rodden returned to Dallas immigration court a year after the Observer’s original investigation into his social media. Congressman Marc Veasey’s amendment did not receive a committee vote Wednesday.

by Steven Monacelli, The Texas Observer January 24, 2026January 24, 2026

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a 2022 appearance in Zapata County.

San Antonio News

South Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar just voted to give ICE even more funding

The Laredo congressman joined Republicans and six other Democrats in voting to give billions more to the agency, even as public furor builds over its aggressive enforcement actions.

by Stephanie Koithan January 23, 2026January 23, 2026

News

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro says 5-year-old arrested by ICE could be in San Antonio detention facility

Castro said he suspects the child and his father are being held in Dilley’s South Texas Family Residential Center after being arrested in Minneapolis.

by Stephanie Koithan January 22, 2026January 22, 2026

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

News

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

San Antonio News

Hundreds protest at San Antonio City Hall against Trump’s first year in office

Students from at least two SA high schools also walked out of class as part of the national day of protest.

by Sanford Nowlin and Michael Karlis January 21, 2026January 21, 2026

San Antonio demonstrators voice their anger about ICE detentions during a protest earlier this month.

News

A third immigrant held at Texas detention center has died

The latest death since December at El Paso’s Camp East Montana is a 36-year-old Nicaraguan who died of apparent suicide.

by Sanford Nowlin January 20, 2026January 20, 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.

Texas News

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