{"id":126263,"date":"2026-01-16T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126263\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:37:06","slug":"ice-detains-injures-one-person-in-kyle-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126263\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE detains, injures one person in Kyle, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person was detained by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Kyle on Thursday and transported to the hospital, according to the Kyle Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical services provided the transport, and the individual was accompanied by Homeland Security personnel, according to Kyle Police.<\/p>\n<p>Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra said the incident happened outside a Costco store and that the individual was \u201cbeat up\u201d by ICE agents and was \u201cbleeding from his face.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey beat up a shopper. They beat them up so bad that they needed to call for paramedics. Really? \u2026 There&#8217;s an army of you to take one person down,\u201d Becerra said. \u201cThey&#8217;re not trained on de-escalation. They&#8217;re not trained on how to take someone down. They&#8217;re not trained as we would expect them to be. They&#8217;re being run through like if it was the draft and we were in Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KUT News has reached out to the Kyle Police Department to confirm the injuries sustained by the individual. <\/p>\n<p>ICE agents are also active in Buda, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Budatx\/posts\/pfbid0fGCJJHBQgvAy5QMDDs7Qv2Dmyvj2a6eVJda5uK9N6c11pusZHEG77uT9wsAo9Xqul\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thursday announcement<\/a> from city officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[ICE] agents informed the City that they intended to temporarily park a transport vehicle at City Hall as a central location while conducting their own operations in surrounding areas,\u201d city officials said in a Facebook post. \u201cThe City requested that the transport bus be relocated to free up limited public parking and the agents complied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city of Buda and the Buda Police Department are not involved in the operation, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p>Buda city officials did not confirm where the transport vehicle is now parked or what it looks like, however Becerra said ICE agents are operating out of a large, unmarked white bus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not trying to thwart, undermine or usurp laws,\u201d Becerra said. \u201cWhat I&#8217;m trying to do is inform people like a car wreck, like a tornado, like a fire. I am saying, \u2018Guys, this chaos has been brought upon [our] community, and this is where it&#8217;s at, and this is what&#8217;s going on.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was detained by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Kyle on Thursday and transported to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,18789,54516,2427,1829,54517,54518,54519,54520,54521,13982],"class_list":["post-126263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-buda","tag-buda-police-department","tag-hays-county","tag-ice","tag-ice-activity-in-austin","tag-ice-in-buda","tag-ice-in-texas","tag-ice-protests-hays-county","tag-ice-protests-near-me","tag-kyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126263","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=126263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}