Overview
- Dallas rewrote General Order 315.04 to drop its ban on lengthening a stop to check immigration status and to allow officers to share information and work with ICE when lawful.
- Austin updated its rules to require officers to verify ICE administrative orders when feasible but still forbids arrests or longer detentions solely to wait for federal agents.
- Houston removed a 30‑minute cap on holding people for ICE and deleted language that cast ICE administrative orders as only civil documents under the Fourth Amendment.
- Abbott warned Austin, Dallas, and Houston that state public‑safety grants could be cut unless policies changed, with officials citing large sums at risk, including World Cup security funds in Dallas.
- DHS and CBP deployed at least 200 agents on 30‑day assignments to the Laredo sector to track “gotaways,” meaning people who cross without being caught, even as DHS reports multi‑decade lows in border detentions.