Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announces that a 10-day statewide operation titled Lone Star Mission results in 4,170 arrests across Texas. Over 60% of those apprehended possess criminal records involving offences such as murder and assault, while 40% represent collateral arrests. The joint federal and state campaign coincides with broader federal enforcement revoking status for 2.2 million individuals.
Lone Star Mission operation
- ▪Texas Enforcement and Removal Operations officers taken more than 136,000 criminal individuals into custody between October 2025 and September 30, 2026.
- ▪Five U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and Harlingen led the statewide Lone Star Mission enforcement operation.
- ▪Out of the 4,170 total arrests made during Lone Star Mission across Texas, 879 arrests occurred in North Texas.
- ▪The Department of Homeland Security announced that Lone Star Mission, a 10-day operation in Texas from October 19 to October 29, 2026, resulted in 4,170 arrests of illegal immigrants.
Criminal backgrounds of arrestees
- ▪Individuals arrested during Lone Star Mission included a twice-deported Mexican national wanted for alleged murder and a Honduran national wanted in Honduras for an alleged murder.
- ▪More than 60% of the 4,170 individuals arrested during Lone Star Mission had criminal histories, including convictions for murder, sexual assault, drunken driving, and alien smuggling.
- ▪U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Dallas arrested Orlando Aguilar, a Mexican national with prior convictions for felony intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury, on October 24, 2026.
- ▪Approximately 40% of the individuals arrested during Lone Star Mission had no criminal records and were apprehended as non-target collateral arrests present during enforcement actions.
Federal-state enforcement partnerships
- ▪Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin affirmed that federal immigration authorities will continue targeted enforcement operations in Texas within available agency resources.
- ▪Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated in Dallas that Lone Star Mission relied on joint enforcement partnerships between federal immigration officers and Texas local police and sheriffs.
USCIS enforcement actions
- ▪U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services took enforcement actions to terminate or revoke the immigration status of approximately 2.2 million people under the second Trump administration.
- ▪U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services enforcement measures included ending temporary protected status misuse, terminating certain parole programs, ending automatic employment card extensions, and denying nonimmigrant status extensions lacking legal basis.
Fifth Circuit detention rulings
- ▪The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the July panel decision, ruling that Congress holds authority to set immigration detention policies
- ▪A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in July 2026 that long-term illegal immigrant residents cannot be detained beyond 90 days without a bond hearing.
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