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Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility
Posted 11:14 AM 2/8/2026 by Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune
Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso.
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar disclosed the cases a day after her Friday visit to Camp East Montana, the 5,000-bed tent facility the federal government hastily (More)
2/4/2026
Roma residents left with unanswered questions after Border Patrol announces plans for new checkpoints
Posted 5:54 PM 2/5/2026 by Sarah Cervera
Roma residents said they want to know more after U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced plans to build two new Border Patrol checkpoints in the area.
Details of the plans have been limited.
“Give us info, don't leave us in the dark,” resident Eduardo Lopez (More)
2/3/2026
Trump's border czar pulling 700 immigration officers out of Minnesota immediately
Posted 10:14 AM 2/4/2026 by STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration officers in Minnesota but will continue its enforcement operation that has sparked weeks of tensions and deadly confrontations, border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.
About 700 federal officers &mdash (More)
2/2/2026
After El Paso’s ME ruled migrant’s death a homicide, ICE sent the next body to an Army hospital
Posted 12:52 PM 2/3/2026 by COLLEEN DEGUZMAN | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
The body of a migrant who died at an El Paso immigration detention center was sent to a military hospital rather than the county medical examiner who investigated two previous deaths at the facility — and concluded that one of them was a homicide rather than a suicide.
Victor Manuel (More)
2/1/2026
Two cases of measles detected at Dilley immigrant family detention center
Posted 5:19 PM 2/2/2026 by LOMI KRIEL AND ALEX NGUYEN
Two detainees at the nation’s only current immigrant family detention center, 70 miles south of San Antonio, have “active measles infections,” federal and state officials said.
Federal officials halted “all movement” and quarantined some migrants, said Tricia (More)
1/31/2026
5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and father return to Minnesota from ICE facility in Texas
Posted 11:49 AM 2/1/2026 by JACK DURA Associated Press
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas, have been released following a judge's order. They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.
The boy and his dad, Adrian (More)
