In June 2026, Congress passed the Secure America Act, providing 70 billion dollars in additional funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol

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South Texas Builders Association leaders contacted Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz and Democratic Representatives Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar regarding immigration enforcement on worksites

During the peak of the border surge under the Biden administration, an estimated 10,000 migrants crossed the southern United States border daily

In early 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids began targeting construction job sites in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas

The South Texas Builders Association convened a community meeting in November 2025 to address the economic fallout of workplace immigration raids on local contractors

During a meeting in Washington, D.C., an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told the South Texas Builders Association board that un-enclosed construction sites are not considered private property

Two Border Patrol agents stationed in the Rio Grande Valley died by suicide within one week during the southern border migration surge under the Biden administration

In July 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 200 individuals in the Rio Grande Valley in a single day

In July 2026, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed framer Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas

Construction contractors in the Rio Grande Valley installed security fences, locked gates, and solar-powered cameras around job sites to protect crews from immigration raids

Due to heightened workplace enforcement, construction workers and contractors in the Rio Grande Valley began carrying official identification, including passports and driver's licenses

United States federal immigration authorities made more than 22,000 arrests in San Antonio during Donald Trump's presidential administration

Following the 2024 election, Congress passed a single major legislative package under Donald Trump that reduced taxes and cut healthcare spending

Congressional Democrats proposed a windfall profits tax to redistribute excess oil industry earnings resulting from geopolitical conflicts

Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state agencies to bus arriving migrants to New York City

The First Step Act outlawed specific forms of stacking gun charges

The First Step Act made retroactive the reduction of sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez voted in favor of the Laken Riley Act

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez voted in favor of federal defense legislation that incorporated restrictions on abortion and climate change programs

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez voted against President Joe Biden's student debt relief initiative

President Lyndon B. Johnson spearheaded the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965