Texas Gov. Greg Abbott introduced that state authorities working with the Division of Homeland Safety are conducting an immigration and regulation enforcement operation in Colony Ridge, an enormous improvement recognized for attracting plenty of unlawful immigrants.
“Colony Ridge is being focused right this moment,” Abbott, a Republican, introduced on X on Monday.
Colony Ridge, which is lower than an hour’s drive from Texas’ greatest metropolis, Houston, is a housing improvement that advertises in Spanish for high quality land for low down funds. There are believed to be hundreds of unlawful immigrants residing in the neighborhood, which additionally reportedly has important cartel exercise and little or no police presence.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday introduced that “Colony Ridge is being focused right this moment.” (Brandon Bell/Getty Photographs | ICE)
The governor mentioned Texas Division of Public Security (DPS) troopers and particular brokers have been cooperating with Homeland Safety Investigations in an operation in Colony Ridge this morning, “focusing on criminals & unlawful immigrants.”
Abbott mentioned he has been engaged on this operation with President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, “for months.”
In response to issues that his publish would endanger regulation enforcement’s operation in Colony Ridge, Abbott mentioned the operation started hours earlier than his publish and that “lengthy earlier than my publish anybody within the space would’ve recognized in regards to the operation.”
A spokesperson for DHS, nevertheless, declined to touch upon the operation, citing the necessity to protect secrecy in regards to the particulars of the operations and issues for the protection of the brokers concerned.
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ICE takes unlawful immigrant Jorge Carvajal Castrejon, 36, into custody in Houston on Jan. 28, 2025. (ICE)
Native outlet ABC13 reported that officers on the close by Liberty County Sheriff’s Workplace additional confirmed that DPS and ICE operations have been underway.
One other outlet referred to as The Vindicator reported that not less than one native man, Roberto Alfaro, 24, noticed “undercover” brokers he believed to be from ICE “forcefully” arresting a Mexican nationwide exterior his home.
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Alfaro advised The Vindicator he had by no means seen something just like the operation underway in Colony Ridge earlier than and that it “feels scary.” He talked about his concern that his mom and father can be deported again to Honduras and El Salvador. He additionally mentioned he and a few others have been “chasing” ICE so “we might go behind them and warn others.”
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Tom Homan (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
The Trump administration has unleashed a slew of immigration enforcement actions since taking workplace final month, one of the crucial notable being a string of ICE raids in cities throughout the nation.
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Talking on the Conservative Political Motion Convention on Saturday, Homan introduced that in Trump’s first month within the Oval Workplace, ICE arrested 21,000 unlawful aliens.
“I am proud of the numbers,” he mentioned. “However I am not going to be glad till each prison alien gang member, each prison alien, each Tren de Aragua [gang member] is eradicated from this nation and [we’ve] despatched their a– to Gitmo, the place they belong.”
