Records surfaced this week showing a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a migrant in Starr County last December, eight months after the fact and two months after a grand jury declined to indict. Harris County committed $2.52 million to investigate the Salgado Araujo shooting and threatened to sue the federal government for evidence. The Fifth Circuit granted qualified immunity to the administrator of an Operation Lone Star camp where a man sat 252 days without charges.

A federal judge ordered the release of the only surviving witness to the Salgado Araujo shooting, testing showed the substance federal agents cited in a search warrant was not a drug, prosecutors charged eleven people over seven migrants who died sealed in a rail container, and Ken Paxton opened a birth tourism investigation into two Rio Grande Valley hospitals.

A federal jury convicted a Mexican national of moving roughly $157 million in methamphetamine through Laredo, hidden in produce, charcoal, and strawberry puree.