Held without evidence and handed to ICE: How police cooperation in Texas led to a Hispanic man’s arrest
On October 5, 2025, Aurelio was driving along the Texas Gulf Coast in Galveston because he needed “a moment to catch his breath.” He turned onto a street he and his wife had wanted to see when he felt a pickup truck almost on top of the trunk of his car. While making a U-turn in the alley, a white woman rolled down her window and yelled something in English about one of the children that he barely understood. An hour later, while he was playing with his three-year-old daughter in the front yard of his house, two patrol cars from the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office arrived at his door, questioned him and arrested him.
