Governor Greg Abbott announced Sunday that Texas Department of Public Safety operations are expected to “expand in coming days” as part of immigration enforcement efforts.

Gov. Greg Abbott has previously deployed the Texas National Guard and DPS troopers during Black Lives Matter protests and for border control.

Recent trooper academy graduations are helping to address a staffing shortage, which is now at 540 vacancies, and that has reduced longer deployments.

Gov. Greg Abbott put the Texas National Guard and DPS troopers in place ahead of anti-Trump protests planned for Saturday. The protests coincide with a festival and parade in Washington, D.C., to ...

Victims’ families are being reached out to, saying that, ‘They have their kids, pay me money.’ It’s heartbreaking,” Kerrville ...

Migrants caught crossing the border tell Texas state troopers that Mexican cartels are responding by raising their fees for smuggling people across.

Eight Iowa Department of Public Safety troopers and two sergeants went to work with Texas DPS from March 31 through April 27. The cost of the 2024 border deployment has not yet been released ...

This story has been updated with information from the Texas Governor's June 12 press release. Gov. Greg Abbott has confirmed the deployment of thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers and Texas ...

Nine members of the Air Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety from El Paso deployed to central Texas to assist ...

— Texas DPS (@TxDPS) June 12, 2025 In 2020, 3,000 troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety were deployed across Texas to respond to the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers, accompanied by Texas law enforcement officers, helped locate and detain more than 1,600 undocumented immigrants near the Mexico border between mid-February and mid ...