What should Texas do with the attorney general's ICE partnership?

Texas’s incoming attorney general, Democrat Nathan Johnson, is reviewing his office’s partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and may end it. Johnson called the agreement a waste of resources and said continuing it would depend on ICE giving his office independent authority to investigate alleged misconduct by federal agents in Texas. Under the current arrangement, authorized office personnel can question people about immigration status, make related arrests and process cases for transfer to federal custody; outgoing Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office reported 35 such arrests in late 2025. ICE has not publicly responded to Johnson’s stated conditions.