ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
The administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 habeas petitions, a historic high. Texas and California account for about 40% of cases this year.
A viral video showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers entering a San Antonio home has reignited public questions about what people, citizens and noncitizens alike, must do during an encounter with immigration authorities, and what agents are allowed to do under the Constitution.
Aaron Reitz, who is running for Texas attorney general, issued the threat after an interview of Wu was shared online of him discussing non-white voting strength.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers followed an immigrant inside his home while attempting to arrest him in a now-viral video, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
More than a week after visiting 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father at a immigrant family detention facility in Dilley, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro visited a second U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility Friday in Pearsall.
ICE said in a statement obtained by KSAT that the facility wouldn’t be a warehouse but rather a “very well-structured” detention facility.
In San Antonio, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reportedly acquired an East Side warehouse to hold immigrant detainees. The topic has the community wondering what this could potentially mean for their neighborhood and the city.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar addressed immigration enforcement actions impacting South Texas at a news conference with leaders from the South Texas Builders Association and the Laredo Chamber of Commerce.
A warehouse on the East Side is likely to become a new federal immigration facility, according to multiple local officials and reports, though federal authorities have not formally confirmed the purchase.
Reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has acquired an East Side warehouse to hold detained immigrants had local Democrats burning up Tuesday, even as confirmation remained elusive.
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined KSAT for its weekly Q&A Tuesday night during the 6 O’Clock News. Jones discussed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) potential purchase of an East Side warehouse.
ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public.
The cases come amid renewed nationwide scrutiny of the facility following the transfer there of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy who federal agents arrested along with his father in Minneapolis.
Two people detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center have active measles infections, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez fired on Pretti during a protest in Minneapolis last month, according to government records viewed by ProPublica.
Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who was detained by immigration officers in Minnesota last week, and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, were released from a detention center in Dilley.
Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, with a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers, sparked even more outcry about President Donald Trump's administration's immigration crackdown.
A federal judge has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, from the immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, court records show.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is considering acquiring Oakmont 410, an East Side warehouse touted as San Antonio’s largest industrial development when it was built in 2022, according to a source close to the matter.
Some local businesses in San Antonio have reported that they will not be open on Friday, Jan. 30, or will donate a portion of proceeds to charities supporting immigrants to protest the increased presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the city.
An immigrant seen on video ramming into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles in a San Antonio parking lot remains in custody after a Thursday court appearance, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
Students at several high schools across San Antonio walked out of their schools Friday to protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in the country.
The two protesters arrested Wednesday outside of a detention facility in Dilley, Texas, have been charged with interfering with public duties.
A San Antonio family is searching for answers after their father, identified by relatives only as Sandro, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as he arrived at work last week.
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.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat based in Laredo and serving Texas’ 28th District, discussed the impact of people detained in Dilley who are later sent to the Laredo Holding Institute, a prominent shelter in the city.
State troopers deployed pepper spray at protesters at the family detention center near Dilley where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian’s detention has drawn nationwide attention.
The family of the Boulder terror attack suspect believes their months-long detention at a facility in Dilley, Texas is political punishment and says the living conditions are “inhumane”, a family member told KSAT Investigates.
Two protesters were arrested and other protesters came into contact with tear gas Wednesday outside a Dilley detention facility where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father are being held.
Among Texas congressional lawmakers, Johnson has made the second-highest number of trades, amassing a volume of $4.24 million.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro and former San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg were among the list of current and ex-politicians who attended a rally Wednesday evening in San Antonio.
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.
Recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids across the country have drawn national and local attention, including from Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai.
A U.S. senator’s post is gaining attention on social media after he posted a video describing his experience visiting San Antonio Immigration Court and South Texas detention facilities.
A large, loudly anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crowd filled San Antonio City Council chambers during a lengthy special council meeting Thursday.
Federal agents have taken a 5-year-old boy and his father from Minnesota to a detention facility in Texas.
Senate Bill 4 returns to the 5th Circuit with border crossings at record lows, a sharp reversal from the influx that inspired Texas’ law authorizing state police to arrest undocumented immigrants.
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.
Tuesday marked one year since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term. In response, dozens of people protested in downtown San Antonio.
A man who was charged after he was caught on video ramming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles on the North Side was in the country legally, according to his father.
A San Antonio TikTok user is using his platform to share where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been spotted in the area.
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.
Three undocumented immigrants engaged in human smuggling were arrested after attempting to evade by jumping from rooftop to rooftop early Friday morning across southwest Bexar County, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said.
An immigrant seen on video ramming into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles in a San Antonio parking lot is facing a federal charge of destruction of government property, according to an affidavit obtained by KSAT Investigates.
Video shared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows someone ICE says is an immigrant ramming into agency vehicles in a San Antonio parking lot, injuring an officer.
The wife of the woman shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis says the couple had stopped their car to support their neighbors and they had whistles, while the masked agents had guns.
The Republican U.S. senator praised Trump’s border initiatives and said fully securing the border should take priority over changing immigration law.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced plans to expand on Texas’ controversial floating barrier during a Wednesday visit to the Rio Grande Valley.
A local migrant resource group is telling its clients to keep a close eye on one government website.
The Tribune’s team of data journalists produced a congressional redistricting tool, covered several education data releases, visualized the measles outbreak and more.
More than 300 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
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.
Last month the Trump administration made people from 19 nations ineligible to obtain legal status. “Fear won,” said one woman who came from Venezuela nearly a decade ago.
Sister Norma Pimentel with Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley founded the shelter in McAllen, which serves undocumented immigrants released from federal custody.
The Rahimi family has spent roughly $30,000 in legal fees and immigration processes over the years in an effort for Brandi Rahimi to get her husband legal status in the United States.
After his corruption indictment last year, the Laredo Democrat forfeited his role as the top Democrat on the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees more than $65 billion in annual spending.
The ACLU and other groups interviewed more than 45 migrants held at the detention center and call it a “human and civil rights catastrophe.”
Federal and state law enforcement agents recovered cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana during a November immigration raid, according to new documents obtained by KSAT 12.
The wave of legal challenges is in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and its new policy expanding mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants.
Laws include restricting transgender people’s access to public bathrooms, allowing lawsuits against abortion pill providers, and replacement of the STAAR test.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have released new details on the immigration raid that happened earlier this month on San Antonio’s north side.
Surveillance of a suspected drug dealer took place on San Pedro Avenue weeks before a raid, when more than 150 immigrants were detained, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by KSAT.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said she is working to get answers after the federal raid last weekend at an unauthorized nightclub on the North Side.
Genesis Valadez, the owner of Las Pollitas food truck, caught the federal raid that happened over the weekend on her business cameras.
The Department of Homeland Security released new details on a raid that led to the arrests of 27 people with suspected ties to a Venezuelan gang.
Two men charged in connection with a North Side raid earlier made their first appearance on Wednesday inside a federal courtroom in San Antonio, according to the Department of Justice.
Court records showing formal charges against two individuals connected to a North Side raid have been obtained by KSAT Investigates as authorities remain mum on the operation.
More than 150 immigrants were taken into custody on Sunday, Nov. 16, following a multiple-agency operation on the North Side. Here’s what we know about the case so far.
More than 140 immigrants from Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico and other South American countries were taken into custody on Sunday following a multiple-agency operation on the North Side.
Gov. Greg Abbott joined four other Republican governors and federal officials in thanking Texas National Guard soldiers and Department of Public Safety troopers, stating they helped make the U.S.-Mexico border safer.
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Bexar County on Wednesday to shut down a program that uses county funds to help undocumented people access legal support. A similar lawsuit against Harris County was rejected by a judge in December.
Abbott framed his campaign as a means to keep Texas as a conservative bastion, touting efforts to lower property taxes, bolster education and strengthen public safety.
The city learned about plans to build a new barrier along the southern border during a regular meeting with the Department of Homeland Security.
ICE agents are arresting more immigrants on the streets and at routine check-ins than under President Biden. But most of them don’t have criminal convictions despite pledges to pursue “the worst of the worst.”
It’s the latest step to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.
A Trump administration proposal would strip Texas’ more than 86,000 DACA recipients of their work permits — including two nurses who say they’ll move to other states if that happens.
Beginning Monday, anyone applying for naturalized citizenship in the United States will need to study a new version of the naturalization civics test, more commonly referred to as the citizenship test.
Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE came looking for him.
The El Paso federal judge said the Trump administration is violating the constitutional rights of Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, a DACA recipient who has lived in the U.S. for two decades.
If a judge accepts the plan, the Trump administration will reopen new applications for DACA for the first time in four years — but Texas applicants would no longer receive work permits.
The state is being criticized for advising colleges to verify students’ status with immigration authorities, which could put them at risk.
Federal authorities said the notes indicate the 29-year-old who killed an ICE detainee and wounded two others expressed hatred for the federal government and acted alone.
An immigration judge ruled ICE can’t deport Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, who has permission to be in the country, unless the agency can provide evidence that her legal status was revoked.
Four people were arrested in connection with a human smuggling operation near a gas station on the Southwest Side, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
The Department of Public Safety has shifted from Biden-era border enforcement to helping expel people from the country, a job once exclusively done by federal authorities.
Neighbors are still trying to make sense of a raid on an East Side home that ended with the arrest of a woman they knew only as a wife and mother.
Margarita Avila, a Houston mother of nine, was detained by ICE after an altercation that led to no charges. Her close-knit family weigh their futures if she is deported.