Texas Law Enforcement Miscast as Villains in Immigration Debate
28th October 2026
Legacy media have been sounding the alarm about deportations in Texas, but they are leaving out key details, painting law enforcement as criminals—and criminals as the victims.
One recent example is an investigative article on police in the small town of Ingram, Texas. The Ingram Police Department joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program in 2025, which offers funding in exchange for enforcing immigration law—a major boost for a department with just two officers.
The Texas Tribune profiled Officer Jaron Alexander, who made traffic stops that caught illegal aliens and sent them to federal authorities. As a police officer, he enforced the law. Within a year, he and the town’s only other officer referred a whopping 10% of the town’s population as illegal aliens. The worst thing the outlet dug up about Alexander was allegations of affairs, which he denied.
The real shocker is that illegal aliens allegedly make up at least 10% of Ingram’s population. In fact, Latinos make up 45% of the town’s population—to the point that some have begun calling it “mini Guanajuato,” after the central Mexican state from which many of them came. But this wasn’t the headline for The Texas Tribune. Its story line was that Alexander enforced the law. Since when is a police officer doing his job newsworthy? Many communities across Texas participate in the 287(g) program, including Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth. One wonders why left-wing media would pick on a small town like Ingram.
The Texas Tribune is the house organ for Woke Democrats in Texas.