(TEXAS) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 24 undocumented immigrants during a one-day targeted operation in Texas, working with federal, state, and local partners in a coordinated enforcement action rather than a broad sweep.

ICE described the operation as part of a wider pattern of targeted arrests in Texas, where the agency has increasingly worked with other agencies and local law enforcement. The latest action added to a series of ICE arrests carried out with support from multiple jurisdictions.

The agency tied the Texas operation to enforcement efforts in Dallas, Irving, Arlington, Fort Worth, and Collin County. Those actions have relied on coordination among federal officers, state authorities, and local departments.

That pattern has extended beyond a single city or county. Operations in Texas have involved multiple cities and counties, with partner agencies drawn from federal, state, and local law enforcement.

In a separate North Texas operation over a weekend, ICE said it arrested 84 people in one day. Most had prior criminal histories.

Officials have also carried out larger actions in Houston. During a 10-day operation in October, they said they arrested more than 1,500 undocumented immigrants.

The latest one-day targeted operation shows how ICE has leaned on concentrated enforcement actions instead of mass roundups. The agency has presented those efforts as coordinated operations built around specific targets.

Texas has become a central setting for that model. ICE has repeatedly used targeted arrests with help from other agencies and local law enforcement across the state.

Texas DPS has also expanded cooperation with federal immigration enforcement through a task force model agreement. The agreement was signed on November 3.

That arrangement placed the state police agency more firmly inside the enforcement structure that supports federal actions in Texas. It also reflected a broader partnership model behind recent ICE arrests in the state.

Geography has shaped those efforts. From North Texas cities such as Dallas, Irving, Arlington and Fort Worth to Collin County and Houston, enforcement activity has stretched across urban centers and surrounding jurisdictions.

The 24 arrests announced in the latest action were smaller in scale than the Houston operation and the separate North Texas effort. They fit the same approach: a one-day targeted operation, carried out with federal, state and local partners, in a state where interagency immigration enforcement has grown more closely aligned.