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Newsweek
October 16, 2026

Trump’s Texas ICE Crackdown May Have Paved Way for Pro-Immigrant Consensus
By Jesus Mesa


ICE arrests in Texas nearly doubled between February 2025 and February 2026, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis of federal data. About a third of those arrested had criminal convictions. The state held 18,734 people in ICE detention as of February, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.


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