US immigration agency made about a third of its July arrests in Texas
An educator in South Texas tells the BBC that students are having to leave because their parents are being deported.
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An educator in South Texas tells the BBC that students are having to leave because their parents are being deported.
Texas accounted for roughly one-third of all US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests nationwide in July 2026, more than any other state, the BBC reported on 23 October. The figures came from government records obtained by the Deportation Data Project.
President Donald Trump campaigned in 2024 on stopping illegal border crossings. The BBC reports that crossings are at their lowest level in decades. Its reporting in South Texas also describes disruption to students after parental deportations and a separate account of reduced worker attendance at one employer.
After a church service in the Rio Grande Valley, an unnamed educator told the BBC that many students were having to leave because their parents were being deported.
Javier Villalobos, the mayor of McAllen, distinguished securing the border from deporting people already living and working in the area. He credited the Trump administration with securing the border, but said deporting productive, law-abiding people was where the problem lay.
Mario Guerrero, who leads the South Texas Builders Association, told the BBC that an employer he knew had described a sharp fall in the number of workers showing up. Guerrero’s account was secondhand and concerned one employer.
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| Previous year | 35 workers every day |
| Recent conversation | The employer said he would be lucky to get four to six workers to show up |
The reasons for individual workers’ absences remain unclear. The account describes difficulty getting workers to attend, rather than a confirmed number of workers detained or deported.
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