{"id":184066,"date":"2026-02-28T04:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184066\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:51:08","slug":"houstons-cinco-de-mayo-parade-canceled-this-year-amid-ice-concerns-lulac-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184066\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s Cinco De Mayo parade canceled this year amid ICE concerns, LULAC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The League of United Latin Citizens&#8217; annual Cinco De Mayo Parade has been canceled this year due to increasing concerns about ICE presence, the organization said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to LULAC representatives, the decision came after the parade committee, in consultation with district leadership, voted to cancel the 2026 parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The safety of our children and their parents remains our highest priority,&#8221; LULAC said. &#8220;While Cinco de Mayo is an important cultural celebration that honors heritage, pride, and community unity, no event outweighs the responsibility we have to protect our families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/houston-cinco-de-mayo-celebrations-lulac-district-viii-hosted-annual-parade-downtown-saturday-may-3-2025\/16276415\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cinco de Mayo parade brings joy of community and culture to heart of downtown;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cinco de Mayo parade brings joy of community and culture to heart of downtown<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Although the parade won&#8217;t be held this year, the committee insisted that the event will return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We look forward to bringing the parade back next year under conditions that allow our community to gather freely, safely, and without fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The League of United Latin Citizens&#8217; annual Cinco De Mayo Parade has been canceled this year due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[73388,56,58,57,73651,36720],"class_list":{"0":"post-184066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-cinco-de-mayo","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-league-of-united-latin-citizens","13":"tag-lulac"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184066","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=184066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}