Immigration officials detained Liam Tadeo and his father, Victor Martinez Nieto, on Aug. 16 while they traveled to a soccer game in Austin. Authorities later took them to the Dilley immigration detention facility south of San Antonio before deporting them together to Mexico on Tuesday.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in northern Minneapolis was released from a South Texas jail Thursday after a judge rejected Minnesota officials’ efforts to extend his detention and compel Gov. Greg Abbott to approve his extradition.
A Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been temporarily reassigned after allegedly detaining a 23-year-old woman for more than an hour during a traffic stop while waiting for federal immigration officers to arrive, officials said Wednesday.
A federal judge on Tuesday again declared Texas’ restrictions on certain public performances involving drag and nudity unconstitutional, preventing the state from enforcing the 2023 law on First Amendment grounds.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine concealed in a tractor-trailer carrying laundry detergent at the Roma International Bridge on Aug. 11, federal authorities said Friday.
Texas youth prisons were placed under lockdown procedures last week after a youth seriously assaulted a correctional officer at the Gainesville State Juvenile Correctional Facility and another assault occurred at a halfway house, Texas Juvenile Justice Department Executive Director Shandra Carter told agency board members Friday.
Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Muslim washing stations at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and a similar facility that Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport recently decided not to install, arguing that the facilities amount to religious discrimination.
A data center developer seeking to expand its massive campus in northwest Harris County is asking Houston to remove about 5,200 feet of a planned public road that has been part of the city’s transportation plan for more than four decades.
A West Houston pilot program that places homeless people in hotels while connecting them with support services received an additional $180,000 in local funding as it entered its second year, officials said Thursday.
Two Texas-based oil companies have signed agreements with Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, marking an early step toward renewed U.S. energy investment in the country after the United States captured President Nicolás Maduro earlier this year.