# Texas Senate Bill 8 - 2025 **Entity class:** Legal instrument or procurement arrangement **Domain:** Texas ## Definition Texas's 2025 immigration-enforcement law directs qualifying sheriffs to pursue 287(g) participation. The node keeps the law's session and subject explicit because Texas bill numbers recur across sessions. ## Operational role Texas supplies a concrete geography for the article’s participation architecture. Public reporting, fusion intake, local officer agreements, federal funding, and privately supplied transport occupy different positions in an operational chain. Standardized reporting and defined professional relationships turn distributed people and resources into usable public capacity. **Architecture connections:** [[wiki/Texas Fusion Center|Texas Fusion Center]] · [[wiki/Fusion Center|Fusion Center]] · [[wiki/United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]. ## Relationships - **article-linked authority or contracting instrument:** [[wiki/287(g) Agreements|287(g) Agreements]]. - **article-linked person:** [[wiki/Charles Schwertner|Charles Schwertner]]. - **article-linked mechanism or framework:** [[wiki/Federated Human Provisioning|Federated Human Provisioning]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]]. - **counterterrorism architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft#XIII. The Pipeline Is the Sovereign|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft — XIII. The Pipeline Is the Sovereign]] — October 2026 revision; immediate source for this entry’s place in the marketplace. - [Texas Policy Research, Senate Bill 8 and 287(g) Agreements: Where Texas Stands Today (February 2026).](https://www.texaspolicyresearch.com/senate-bill-8-and-287g-agreements-where-texas-stands-today/) - [Baptist News Global, ICE Rapidly Expanding Its Partnerships with State Law Enforcement (2026).](https://baptistnews.com/article/ice-rapidly-expanding-its-partnerships-with-state-law-enforcement/) ## Dated attributes in the source article **Article’s legal chronology:** effective January 1, 2026; compliance deadline December 1, 2026. The 2025 session and immigration-enforcement subject identify this SB 8. ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Charles Schwertner|Charles Schwertner]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].