Immigration enforcement incidents in Texas

590 documented incidents in Texas in the Human Impact Project database — showing the 100 most recent. View all on the interactive map.

• Texas pastor deported to Ghana, a country he has never visited

  Oct 6, 2026 · Mesquite, TX

• ICE arrests in Austin area surge over 300% since start of Trump's second term

  Oct 6, 2026 · Austin, TX

• ICE agent shoots Venezuelan DoorDash driver in back, leaves him partially paralyzed

  Oct 4, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Bodycam footage contradicts ICE account of US citizen's fatal shooting in Texas

  Oct 4, 2026 · South Padre Island, TX

• Hundreds march in San Antonio as officials weigh lawsuit against ICE detention facility

  Oct 3, 2026 · San Antonio, TX

• Judge expands border wall halt across Big Bend region of Texas

  Oct 2, 2026 · El Paso, TX

• Mother detained by ICE near Austin school bus stop as son cries nearby

  Oct 2, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Cuban father dies after guard restraint at ICE facility, death ruled homicide

  Sep 30, 2026 · El Paso, TX

• Honduran mother faces deportation after judge denies case closure, splitting Houston family

  Sep 30, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Venezuelan asylum seeker and former political prisoner detained by ICE at routine Houston check-in

  Sep 30, 2026 · Houston, TX

• 13-year-old Honduran boy cries, denied asylum in Texas court without a lawyer

  Sep 28, 2026 · Harlingen, TX

• ICE arrests 121 in Texas lake community during summer-long enforcement operation

  Sep 28, 2026 · Lake Lewisville, TX

• U.S. citizen deported to Mexico after traffic stop, returns home nearly five months later

  Sep 28, 2026 · Fredericksburg, TX

• Texas mother deported after teen son publicly confronted ICE over his detention

  Sep 27, 2026 · Alamo, TX

• Teen U.S. citizen pepper-sprayed, wrist broken by ICE while filming raid near school

  Sep 27, 2026 · Alamo, TX

• Venezuelan engineer and new mother detained by ICE at asylum appointment

  Sep 26, 2026 · Dallas, TX

• Austin council candidate charged after protesting ICE shooting

  Sep 26, 2026 · Austin, TX

• DACA recipient deported to Mexico despite valid status, separated from three U.S. citizen children

  Sep 26, 2026 · Alamo, TX

• ICE kicks 63-year-old landscaper to ground in San Antonio, fracturing skull and arm

  Sep 25, 2026 · San Antonio, TX

• Houston teen cleans car windows after mother's deportation, blind father at home

  Sep 24, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Houston father detained by ICE, family raises funds for legal costs

  Sep 24, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Houston father with heart condition detained by ICE, family races to find him

  Sep 23, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Father detained by ICE in Katy, Texas, leaving wife and three children stranded

  Sep 22, 2026 · Katy, TX

• Father detained by ICE during traffic stop on way to work

  Sep 22, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Congresswoman blocked from speaking to detainees at massive Texas ICE tent camp

  Sep 22, 2026 · El Paso, TX

• Cuban woman married to Army veteran held nearly 10 months after ICE check-in

  Sep 22, 2026 · Dallas, TX

• Father with work permit detained by ICE amid pending asylum case

  Sep 21, 2026 · San Antonio, TX

• Austin carpenter detained by ICE as pregnant wife pushes for his release

  Sep 21, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Teen hit by chemical projectile as police break up Austin protest over ICE shooting

  Sep 20, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Single mother detained by ICE, family raises funds for lawyer

  Sep 19, 2026 · La Marque, TX

• Mother detained by ICE after 20 years in U.S., family seeks help

  Sep 18, 2026 · Port Isabel, TX

• Venezuelan asylum seeker separated from family for months at Texas detention center

  Sep 18, 2026 · Taylor, TX

• Pregnant woman held at Dilley ICE facility denied specialist prenatal care for weeks

  Sep 15, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Army veteran's wife detained at routine ICE check-in, faces deportation

  Sep 15, 2026 · Dallas, TX

• Big Bend Landowners Sue to Block 600-Mile Border Wall Plan

  Sep 15, 2026 · Hudspeth County, TX

• Pastor paralyzed by stroke in ICE custody after alleged medical neglect, later released

  Sep 13, 2026 · TX

• Immigrant detained at Texas facility challenges prolonged detention without bond hearing

  Sep 13, 2026 · Taylor, TX

• McKinney teacher's husband detained at ICE check-in, still held nine months later

  Sep 13, 2026 · McKinney, TX

• Father of four detained by ICE while driving to work in Austin

  Sep 12, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Texas teens heading to enlist in Marines detained, pepper sprayed by ICE

  Sep 12, 2026 · Alamo, TX

• Deported Mexican informant re-detained by ICE after returning to U.S. under court order

  Sep 11, 2026 · TX

• Bodybuilder detained at fake traffic stop, pursuing self-deportation

  Sep 10, 2026 · Dallas, TX

• Man detained by ICE, family raises funds for legal help

  Sep 10, 2026 · Killeen, TX

• Kenyan man who lived in Dallas 25 years deported to Cameroon, hospitalized with malaria

  Sep 10, 2026 · Dallas, TX

• Argentine woman held by ICE in Texas for a month despite voluntary departure order

  Sep 9, 2026 · TX

• Korean man detained by ICE during green card interview in Texas

  Sep 8, 2026 · Irving, TX

• Two Austin restaurant workers detained by ICE arriving for their shift

  Sep 7, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Father of disabled children deported while driving to work

  Sep 3, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Venezuelan man released after nearly 7 months in ICE detention, lost home and job

  Sep 3, 2026 · San Antonio, TX

• Honduran teen deported to Honduras while traveling to start college on scholarship

  Sep 2, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Naval Academy midshipman's mother detained at green card interview, deported to Mexico

  Sep 2, 2026 · San Antonio, TX

• Cuban ICE detainee force-fed via surgical tube after judge's order during hunger strike

  Sep 1, 2026 · Conroe, TX

• Mariachi brothers shackled and separated from family, released after bipartisan pressure

  Sep 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Mexican deportees stranded in Guatemala after being flown far from home

  Sep 1, 2026 · San Antonio, TX

• Texas man among thousands of Mexicans deported to Guatemala, then forced back across Mexico

  Sep 1, 2026 · Brownsville, TX

• Father of four detained by ICE on way to work in Texas

  Aug 31, 2026 · New Braunfels, TX

• Detainee held near Vinton, TX seeks emergency court order to block removal

  Aug 31, 2026 · Vinton, TX

• Victor Salgado Araujo held 54 days by ICE as witness to agent's killing of his brother

  Aug 31, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Pregnant Venezuelan mother detained without medical care after self-deportation interview

  Aug 31, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Nicaraguan protester deported to Africa despite torture protection

  Aug 28, 2026 · TX

• Work-permit holder detained by ICE in Port Isabel, released with ankle monitor

  Aug 28, 2026 · Port Isabel, TX

• Father, 9-year-old daughter detained after ICE lures girl from home, later freed

  Aug 28, 2026 · San Antonio, TX

• Man detained during traffic stop after 33 years in U.S.

  Aug 28, 2026 · Texas

• Texas mother and two children detained by ICE at school bus stop

  Aug 27, 2026 · Alamo Heights, TX

• Georgian mother gives up green card fight to end kids' 58-day detention

  Aug 26, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Witness to fatal Houston ICE shooting released after weeks in detention

  Aug 26, 2026 · Houston, TX

• ICE arrest surge upends daily life in Rio Grande Valley's Laguna Madre area

  Aug 26, 2026 · Port Isabel, TX

• Masked ICE agents arrest riders on Houston Metro bus

  Aug 26, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Immigrant detained at South Texas ICE facility files habeas petition challenging detention

  Aug 25, 2026 · Pearsall, TX

• Father and 5-year-old son detained at traffic stop, deported together to Mexico

  Aug 25, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Honduran mother reunited with breastfeeding baby after judge orders ICE release

  Aug 25, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Border wall expansion threatens 4,000-year-old Indigenous rock art in Texas canyon

  Aug 24, 2026 · Del Rio, TX

• Soldier's wife deported to Honduras despite pending military parole case

  Aug 24, 2026 · El Paso, TX

• Padres minor-league coach detained by ICE at El Paso airport, later released on bond

  Aug 24, 2026 · El Paso, TX

• Man deported after 30 years in U.S., leaves wife and sons behind

  Aug 23, 2026 · TX

• Oaxacan father deported after years of remittances funded children's schooling

  Aug 23, 2026 · TX

• Mexican man deported after years working to repay $16,000 debt

  Aug 23, 2026 · TX

• Man arrested by ICE on way to work, family seeks help fighting deportation

  Aug 21, 2026 · Haltom City, TX

• Venezuelan father deported to Liberia despite protection order, separated from newborn son

  Aug 21, 2026 · TX

• Honduran man deported to Liberia says he feels stranded, far from family

  Aug 20, 2026 · TX

• 5-year-old boy detained with father in Austin traffic stop, held at Dilley facility

  Aug 20, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Man arrested by ICE agents at Texas home as owner demands warrant

  Aug 20, 2026 · Brownsville, TX

• Afghan grandmother deported after first-ever case in Alien Terrorist Removal Court

  Aug 20, 2026 · TX

• Award-winning pharmacy instructor detained by ICE at Dallas airport after conference

  Aug 19, 2026 · Dallas, TX

• Man forced to ground by ICE agents in Brownsville shopping plaza

  Aug 19, 2026 · Brownsville, TX

• Construction workers detained by ICE at Texas job site

  Aug 19, 2026 · Weslaco, TX

• Deaf Venezuelan man deported to Mexico without interpreter after asylum check-in

  Aug 19, 2026 · TX

• Immigration detainee at T. Don Hutto facility challenges prolonged detention without bond hearing

  Aug 18, 2026 · Taylor, TX

• Detained immigrant held in Texas files habeas petition challenging detention

  Aug 18, 2026 · Pearsall, TX

• Man detained at South Texas ICE facility challenges detention via habeas corpus petition

  Aug 18, 2026 · Pearsall, TX

• Mother weighed giving up appeal to free kids from Texas detention camp

  Aug 18, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Mexican migrant alleges ICE beating in Texas, denied medical care

  Aug 18, 2026 · Arlington, TX

• Husband detained by ICE on way to work, family seeks support

  Aug 17, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Worker taken from Weslaco construction site by ICE agents without warrant

  Aug 17, 2026 · Weslaco, TX

• 58 detained on ICE holds in Galveston County jails in early August

  Aug 17, 2026 · Galveston, TX

• Legal permanent resident detained by ICE seeks immediate release via emergency court motion

  Aug 14, 2026 · Willacy County, TX

• Bulldozers begin border wall construction through Big Bend National Park's Santa Elena Canyon

  Aug 14, 2026 · Big Bend National Park, TX

• Guatemalan man detained by ICE after calling 911 to report Home Depot shooting

  Aug 14, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Man detained by ICE while driving to work after 14 years in U.S. challenges detention without bond hearing

  Aug 12, 2026 · El Paso, TX

• Houston pastor detained by ICE at airport while traveling with wife

  Aug 12, 2026 · Houston, TX