Colony Ridge, Texas, Immigration Operation: About 90 Arrested, Fox News Fox

Houston – About 90 people were arrested in and around Colony Ridge, Texas, during a concentrated immigration operation in the north of Houston, Fox news reports.

Dozens of arrests in Colony Ridge

Backstory:

On Monday, the Texas government, Greg Abbott, announced on X that Texas DPS troops and special agents have assisted internal security investigations with a Colony Ridge operation targeting “illegal criminals and immigrants.”

Governor Abbott also said he worked with President Donald Trump, Tom Homan’s border tsar, “Monday”.

What do we know:

Fox News National Correspondent Brooke Taylor He spoke to Homan, who said that some of the migrants were arrested for work operations and already have open mandates. Others were arrested during traffic stops.

Taylor reports that a man who was arrested has been deported three times and had a criminal arrest warrant for alleged repeated sexual abuses for a minor, for US immigrants and customs application.

What we don’t know:

The exact number of the arrested is not known. Also, it is not clear to how many have done or have no mandates for their arrests. Their identities were not released.

What do they say:

The operation determined a press conference on the organization for civil rights, led by immigrants on Monday.

“As we arrived here about an hour and a half ago, I saw that over a dozen traffic will happen on this main road,” said Cesar Espinoza, the executive director for Field Houston. “It seems that they only pull people and then climb this from there.”

In a statement announces the press conference on Monday, he also said: “We are in solidarity with our community, informing about their rights and denouncing the wave of terror to Colony Ridge Communits by the governor. We will be in front of Cottonwood the school to inform the press about the fear that these families experience when they return home from work or school, just to find out that a loved person is missing. “

“They were police officers at the family dollar and took a few people. And my mother, it was scared and it was:” We don’t want our family to be like them, “said One Colony Ridge Resident, who didn’t want to either displayed on the room.

Colony Ridge controversy

Backstory:

Fox 26 Reported on Colony Ridge in 2023, due to the controversies around the 40,000 community. There were statements that the neighborhood had a large population of immigrants without documents, and some parliamentarians even claimed that Mexican drug cartels controlled parts. Governor Abbott asked the parliamentarians to investigate.

Trey Harris, a co -owner of Colony Ridge, told Fox 26 at that time that the parliamentarians were “misinformed” and said that most of the owners of property are American citizens.

“A very small percentage of our customers, which can probably be undocumented, and the status here is questionable,” he said.

Harris said that he offers low-income families an opportunity to be owners of house sells the property, and the buyer builds the house.

Harris told Fox 26 in 2023 that he required two forms of identification, an advance payment, usually around $ 500 and a good US address. He said he did not request a social security number, which he said is not requested by law.

That Reported by Texas Tribune in 2024The General Prosecutor of Texas, Ken Patxon, sued Colony Ridge developers, accusing them of misleading sales, marketing and credits. Developer John Harris said there is no merit for the accusations.

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