ICE detains 4,170 migrants in ten-day Texas operation

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained 4,170 migrants in Texas during Operation Lone Star Mission from October 19 through 29, 2026. The Department of Homeland Security announced the total when the deployment ended. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin presented the results in Dallas.

The operation brought together all five ICE regional offices in Texas, located in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Harlingen. Coordination among those offices supported operations in different parts of the state during the announced period. The official total attributed the detentions to the joint deployment but did not break down each city's figure in the cited information except for Dallas.

Federal agents and state and local police also took part, according to the description. Authorities said teams sought people cited for immigration violations and crimes. The ten-day operation focused on Texas, with regional ICE offices working under the same Lone Star Mission name.

DHS said those arrested lacked regular immigration status and that some were allegedly connected with homicides, sexual assaults and impaired driving. Those references are the authority's claims about some detainees; the announced total represents arrests and does not establish that all 4,170 people were convicted of crimes.

Dallas accounted for about 900 detentions, according to the released breakdown. That figure places it as the location with the most arrests among published local data. The total of 4,170 covers all of Texas from October 19 through 29. It describes the operation's scale but is not itself a count of convictions and does not support attributing criminal records to every detainee.