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

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Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar released a campaign advertisement describing Donald Trump as the potential 'Lincoln of immigration.'

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

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

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

In July 2026, the Department of Homeland Security sent California officials a list of approximately 20,000 registered voters identified as suspected noncitizens

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

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

Approximately two million people emigrated from Ireland between 1845 and 1855 as a consequence of the Great Famine

United States government involvement in Flávio Bolsonaro's arrival in the United States in October 2026 was limited to granting visas

Representative Maria Elvira Salazar released a political advertisement criticizing Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies as excessively harsh

Republican Senator Roger Marshall criticized the Trump administration for failing to notify local authorities before conducting an ICE raid in Kansas

In spring 2025, Dallas-area left-wing activists planned an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4th

During the July 4, 2025 protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center, an unidentified individual spray-painted anti-police and anti-ICE slogans on the guard shack and parked vehicles

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 restricts judicial review of certain border barrier waiver decisions exclusively to direct Supreme Court appeals

Federal District Judge Kathleen Cardone issued a preliminary injunction enjoining border wall construction in Big Bend National Park