ICE arrests 11 people at Port Isabel construction site
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was updated on Tuesday, June 3, after Homeland Security Investigations issued a correction saying the worksite enforcement encounter happened in Port Isabel and not South Padre Island.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Rio Grande Valley arrested 11 undocumented immigrants in a construction site in Port Isabel, according to Homeland Security Investigations.
ICE Rio Grande Valley, working w/federal and local partners, conducted a worksite enforcement encounter at a construction site in South Padre Island, TX which led to the apprehension of 11 aliens from Mexico. pic.twitter.com/tRB20s5l0N
— HSI San Antonio (@HSI_SanAntonio) June 3, 2025
In a social media post that was originally posted on Monday, and then deleted and re-uploaded on Tuesday, HSI referred to the incident as a “worksite enforcement encounter,” and said all those arrested were from Mexico.
The agency did not say when the encounter happened.
Additional details were not immediately available.