Texas Governor Greg Abbott The announcement was made that state authorities in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security are conducting immigration and enforcement operations on the Colonial Ridge, a huge development known for attracting large numbers of illegal immigrants.
“Today’s colonial ridge is the target,” Republicans announced Monday.
Colonial RidgeLess than an hour’s drive from Houston, the largest city in Texas, a housing development that is advertised in Spanish as Spain to provide quality land for lower payments. It is believed that thousands of illegal immigrants are believed to live in the community, and cartels are reportedly active and few police officers are reported.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday that “the Colonial Ridge is targeted today.” (Brendan Bell/Getty Images | Ice)
The governor said Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) soldiers and special agents are working with Homeland Security Investigation In the operation on the Colonial Ridge this morning, “targeting criminals and illegal immigrants.”
Abbott said he has been working on the operation with President Donald Trump’s border tsar Tom Homan, “for months.”
In response to fears his position would endanger law enforcement’s actions on Colonial Ridge, Abbott said the action began hours after his position and “long before my position, anyone in the area knew it Once it was done.”
However, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the action, citing the need for confidentiality details and concerns about the security of the agents involved.
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Ice detained 36-year-old illegal immigrant Jorge Carvajal Castrejon in Houston on January 28, 2025. (ice)
Local export ABC13 Officials from the nearby Liberty County Sheriff’s Office further confirmed that DPS and ICE operations are underway, the report said.
Another socket is called this defender At least one local man, Roberto Alfaro, 24, reportedly saw a “secret” agent he believed was arrested “forcefully” from the ice, arresting a Mexican national outside his home.
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Alfaro told the Apologist that he had never seen anything like the Colony Ridge’s action before, which was “fearing.” He mentioned his concern that his mother and father would be expelled back to Honduras and El Salvador. He also said he and some others were “chasing” the ice, so “we can warn others behind them.”
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Tom Homan (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Since taking office last month, the Trump administration has unleashed a series of immigration enforcement actions, most notably a series of ice raids in cities across the country.
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exist Conservative Political Action Conference On Saturday, Homan announced Trump’s first month in the Oval OfficeBing arrested 21,000 illegal foreigners.
“I’m happy with the numbers,” he said. “But until every criminal alien gang member, every criminal alien, every Tren de Alaguya [gang member] From this country [we’ve] Send their A-to to the Gitmo they belong to. ”
