{"id":116761,"date":"2026-01-09T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116761\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:30:25","slug":"50-immigrants-reportedly-detained-in-houston-area-raids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116761\/","title":{"rendered":"50 immigrants reportedly detained in Houston-area raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fifty undocumented immigrants were reportedly detained during operations in the Houston metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Texas Attorney General says the operations targeted locations known for &#8220;criminal activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Those who were detained were reportedly turned over to federal authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HOUSTON &#8211; About 50 undocumented immigrants were reportedly detained during recent Houston-area raids.<\/p>\n<p>Houston: 50 immigrants allegedly detained<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-ken-paxton-detains-fifty-illegal-aliens-raids-throughout-houston-area\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&#039;s Office;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s Office<\/a>, their Criminal Investigation Division conducted raids in the Houston metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The division allegedly targeted locations &#8220;known to promote or be connected with criminal activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The office says 50 people were detained as a result, and the suspects were reportedly turned over to the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The office did not share other details regarding the raids or the time frame in which they were conducted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The information in this article comes from the Office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Fifty undocumented immigrants were reportedly detained during operations in the Houston metropolitan area. The Texas Attorney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16693,56,58,6831,57,1967,4479,149],"class_list":{"0":"post-116761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-criminal-investigation-division","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-metropolitan-area","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-ken-paxton","14":"tag-texas-attorney-general","15":"tag-undocumented-immigrants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}