The San Antonio mayor urged federal leaders to rethink their approach of enforcing immigration action toward military families.
A vehicle crashed into a North Side elementary school fence after the driver exited and fled on foot while fleeing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, the agency said Friday.
District 10 Councilman Marc Whyte said he opposes the city’s efforts to block federal immigration facilities in San Antonio, including a lawsuit filed this week and a proposed lease at Brooks.
Two days after the City of San Antonio sued to block the conversion of an East Side warehouse to an ICE detention and processing facility, councilmembers indicated they want to explore ways to fight the agency moving into leased space at Brooks.
Organizers of the Día de los Muertos festival at Woodlawn Lake Park announced they are canceling the annual event, citing current political and economic challenges tied to immigration enforcement.
The City of San Antonio filed a lawsuit on Tuesday over a proposed immigration facility on the East Side, and Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones discussed the filing during this week’s KSAT Q&A.
A 48-year-old man was hospitalized after being hit by a vehicle driven by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Saturday morning in Houston, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
San Antonio councilmembers are gearing up for a fight to block the opening of an East Side warehouse as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
The Department of Homeland Security says a federal immigration officer shot and wounded a Dominican man while arresting him in New York City.
Hundreds of people gathered on San Antonio’s East Side on Saturday to protest the proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center on Southeast Loop 410, a project some local officials say could harm nearby residents, infrastructure and the environment.
Wilber Rafael Garces-Perez, the Venezuelan man shot in the back by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Austin, is scheduled for a preliminary detention hearing Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors have charged the Austin man an ICE agent shot earlier this month with a single count of resisting and assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents.
Federal prosecutors in Texas announced assault charges against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in the back by immigration enforcement agents Sept. 20.
In a federal criminal complaint, DHS says Wilber Rafael Garces Perez knew he was fleeing federal agents and his car’s sideview mirror struck an officer. A judge ordered him to remain in detention.
Protesters demanded the release of a man who was shot by an immigration official from the South Texas Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center in Pearsall on Sunday.
Two men who allegedly caused a fatal vehicle crash that killed a father in New Braunfels were given an immigration detainer, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Dozens of people gathered outside San Antonio City Hall on Friday to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and the Sept. 20 shooting of a 28-year-old man in Austin.
A U.S. congressmen that represent parts of San Antonio is expected to discuss his visit with Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez on Wednesday.
Two men who allegedly caused a fatal vehicle crash that killed a father in New Braunfels were given an immigration detainer, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
KSAT Investigates looks at ICE arrests and shootings involving federal immigration officers in 2026 following a shooting in Austin, Texas.
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez legally entered the country in 2024 via the CBP One app and applied for asylum, his attorneys said. But he missed a court hearing after the notice went to the wrong address.
Politicians and advocates gathered Monday to urge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release a Venezuelan father who was shot by an ICE officer in Austin over the weekend.
The man was identified Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, 28, of Venezuela, by his lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch. She said he had a valid work permit and entered the U.S. legally.
Local authorities say a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, where anti-ICE protesters gathered for hours.
A San Antonio woman says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stopped her last week without an explanation and questioned her family about their citizenship.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined the KSAT Q&A on Tuesday to discuss the city’s new police chief, a looming budget deficit and a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility on the East Side.
A federal judge sentenced a Cuban man this week after he rammed into multiple government vehicles in the parking lot of a North Side Walmart.
Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) said a father and daughter from the Alamo City were released from an immigration detention facility in Dilley.
A man was arrested last week after authorities said he threatened to shoot multiple U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) officers on the North Side.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, saying officers would use them to control detainees and protesters who resist.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct.
A group of federal and state lawmakers is calling on six Bexar County communities to reconsider their agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), arguing that local police should not take on a greater role in federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro is demanding federal immigration authorities release a man and his 9-year-old daughter after the two were detained in a traffic stop.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are set to begin wearing body-worn cameras nationwide this fall, but a key provision in the agency’s policy is raising concerns about public transparency — specifically, who decides what footage the public gets to see and when.
Immigration officials denied the allegations, but Reps. Joaquin Castro and Veronica Escobar said they’ve come across numerous problematic examples.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident.
A Churchill High School student and her father were released from the Dilley South Texas Family Residential Center, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said Tuesday.
A 16-year-old was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while on her way to church, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said in a Facebook post Wednesday.
A teenage girl from San Antonio, and her father, are currently detained in the Dilley South Texas Family Residential Center, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said Tuesday during a news conference.
The FBI suggested plastic bags in the van contained methamphetamine. The agency hasn’t released official test results.
Two sons of a man shot by immigration officers in Houston have told members of Congress about the horror and confusion of learning their father had been killed.
An off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is accused of assaulting his former neighbor after a lengthy dispute turned violent last month, San Antonio police records and cell phone camera footage show.
Dozens of Democratic U.S. senators and Maine's Independent senator are demanding more details from Immigration and Customs Enforcement about vetting practices for new agents.
The first report on police-ICE interactions required by the City Council shows Houston transferred 18% of people with immigration-related warrants to ICE custody.
President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after two deadly shootings within a week, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them.
As Latino and immigrant communities mourn the death of a Houston man, undocumented neighbors remain in hiding for fear of being next.
“There is no point in pretending that ICE is here to protect us,” a resident told the City Council in its first meeting since an immigration agent killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will suspend the use of most vehicle stops in the wake of deadly shootings of immigrants in vehicles in both Texas and Maine in the past week, according to media reports.
Trump administration officials have told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in little over a week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Harris County officials say they will fund an independent investigation to identify the ICE agents involved in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing.
The man who sang the national anthem on July 4 at a South Texas immigrant detention facility has been released, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio.
Almost none of the state’s major Republican officials have weighed in on the killing of a Houston man by federal agents, and U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston said she had not spoken with Gov. Greg Abbott.
Homeland Security has not fulfilled its promise to equip all officers with body cameras, despite receiving significant funding.
The death of a man who was fleeing federal immigration agents in Florida is at least the 10th fatality linked to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Some families in the San Antonio area say they are feeling increased pressure as federal immigration enforcement continues and new government data shows nearly 1,500 ICE arrests across the region since January.
A KSAT crew witnessed a man placed into unmarked vehicle by an officer in unidentifiable clothing. ICE walked back its denial of its officers being involved.
The agency said the man was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. His son said he’d lived here for 35 years and was attempting to obtain a work permit.
After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Hebert Kaleth Ibarra Castro, 20, on June 25, local lawmakers are trying to get him released and back home.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intends to make a 640,000-square-foot East Side warehouse operational as an immigration processing facility in spring 2027, the agency’s acting director said in a letter to San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones.
A South Texas nun was detained Sunday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while reportedly on the way to celebrate Mass, Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church said on Facebook.
President Donald Trump says he is nominating Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A poll worker says two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s party primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Two Venezuelan nationals were sentenced in federal court for sex trafficking a 16-year-old in San Antonio, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) news release.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, is calling for the immediate release of a San Antonio father who he said has been held in an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility since April.
A woman was arrested Tuesday after allegedly attempting to portray herself as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent to avoid a traffic citation, according to Balcones Heights police.
Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees and continue refusing to pay wages for detainees’ “voluntary work."
A San Antonio teen and his father will be released from the Dilley detention center on Friday, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, announced in a news release.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release a San Antonio teen and his father from the Dilley detention center on Wednesday.
A San Antonio man was released Monday from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to a family news release, more than 60 days after his arrest by a San Marcos Police Department officer who was later placed on administrative leave.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones asked federal immigration officers “take steps to not inadvertently deter or dissuade lawful U.S. voters from voting due to fear,” in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday, ahead of Tuesday’s runoff primary.
A traffic stop brought multiple law enforcement agencies, including federal officers, to a West Side library parking lot on Wednesday morning.
Hill Country residents, contractors and volunteers say that increased immigration enforcement is a concern that’s slowing progress following the deadly floods last year.
A Venezuelan mother and her two stepchildren reunited with family and friends on Thursday in San Antonio after they were released from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Dilley following a federal judge’s order.
Two Alamo Heights children and their stepmother, who were detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Dilley, were released on Thursday following a federal judge’s order.
A judge has ordered two children and their stepmother be released from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) facility in Dilley by Thursday morning, court records show.
A San Marcos police officer who was placed on administrative leave last month after two arrests has been issued a 24-hour suspension and mandatory retraining, the city said in a statement.
An immigrant who rammed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles outside a North Side Walmart earlier this year was found guilty on Friday after less than three hours of deliberations.
Just over four months after his arrest, a man was on trial over accusations he rammed his vehicle into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers outside a North Side Walmart in January.
U.S. lawmakers held a press conference on Tuesday to discuss desires of releasing nearly 400 people inside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center and shutting down the South Texas facility.
Two children and their mother were detained in the San Antonio area by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson confirmed to KSAT.
Josh Orta was the sole witness of Ruben Martinez’s death to dispute the government’s account. Months later, he died in a crash after learning an ICE agent killed his friend. Their mothers blame the government for their loss.
Three McAllen brothers are preparing to perform on one of Texas’ most iconic stages, about two months after they were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Members of a mariachi band from McAllen, who were once detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, are now scheduled to open for country music star Kasey Musgraves at multiple concerts in the Texas Hill Country.
The Senate has taken the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections.
A San Marcos police officer was placed on administrative leave on April 10 following the arrest of two people last month.
Texas’ largest city has voted 13-4 to amend a policy that limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, as it faces a major funding threat from Gov. Greg Abbott.
A realtor's advertisement caused some tension for people who believed the billboard message was targeting immigrants. He removed the sign after realizing it was being misinterpreted.
New facilities will now have to have industrial zoning, get a specific use authorization from the city council, and be at least 1,000 feet away from schools, public parks, churches, and residential areas.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is calling on the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reconsider plans to turn an East Side warehouse into a detention facility for immigrants.
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U.S. Representatives Joaquin Castro and Greg Casar held a Wednesday afternoon news conference in San Antonio to call for the release of families held inside the Dilley immigration detention center.
