The Texas Standard turned to FIEL and director Cesar Espinosa to gauge the recent increase in ICE activity in Texas and across the U.S.
“New data shows 1 in 4 ICE arrests happened in Texas under Trump’s immigration crackdown,” write the editors.
Cesar Espinosa, executive director of the immigration activist group FIEL in Houston, said his organization can gauge how quickly the Trump administration is working compared to the Biden administration by the number of phone calls they get.
During the Biden administration, he said, ‘We might get one or two calls with somebody getting picked up by ICE every month, every other month. Now we’re averaging about 15 to 20 calls a day.’
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November 4, 2025
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