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Zapata County Sheriff's Office

County · Zapata County · TX

#636 of 2306 agencies by officer count

Agreement signed
November 6, 2025
Residential population
13,747FBI 2025
Sworn officers
35FBI 2025
Civilian staff
49FBI 2025
Total personnel
84FBI 2025
Memorandum of Agreement
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Elections

Sheriff

No regularly scheduled sheriff election in 2026. Wrong? Let us know

How Zapata County voted for president in 2024

Trump
61.0%
2,970
Harris
38.5%
1,877
Others
0.5%
24

Trump won the county by 22.4 points over Harris. 4,871 votes cast.

Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Tex. Const. art. V, § 23 (four-year terms, elected in presidential years; art. XVI, § 65's staggering schedule was repealed in 1999)

Memorandum of Agreement

The full agreement between Zapata County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.

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Agreements on file

2 of 2 models on file

MOAs are not available for every agreement.

Jail Enforcement Signed October 9, 2025 View agreement →

  • Signed by Zapata County Sheriff's Office: Ramon E. Montes
  • Signed by ICE: Madison Sheahan, Deputy Director; ICE Field Office: ERO Harlingen
  • Public affairs contact: Deputy Chief Juan R. Molina, Jr., 200 E 7th Avenue suite 415, Zapata, Texas 78076 · 956-765-9923 · juanrenem@zapatacountytx.gov

Named in the signed 287(g) agreement

Contact

Contact information for this agency is not yet available.

Agreement History

Dated by when each agreement was signed; where ICE's public data lagged more than two weeks behind, the first-seen date is noted too. Changes we can't tie to a signed document are dated by when they were detected.

  1. First seen in ICE data · November 7, 2025

    • + Jail Enforcement Model
    • + Task Force Model

Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: TX2530000.

Dive deeper

The 287(g) participation data doesn't tell us anything about what happened after the agreement was signed. To learn more, the public will need to ask or formally request information. MuckRock is organizing public records requests about immigration enforcement nationwide:

287(g) Watch — a public-interest journalism project. Records, corrections, and tips welcome. Data is from public records and may contain errors or omissions.

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