In the largest raid ever conducted on illegal alien colonies in Texas, at least 118 illegals were arrested outside of Houston.
As Breitbart reports, the raid took place at the 30,000-acre Colony Ridge Subdivision in Liberty County, and was conducted by multiple agencies. Many of the illegals arrested have criminal charges and criminal convictions, including homicide, child sexual abuse, and drug offenses, among others.
In a statement following the raid, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) said that state law enforcement agencies cooperated with federal agencies under the leadership of Border Czar Tom Homan.
One of the illegals arrested in the raid was a three-time deported illegal from El Salvador who had been charged multiple times with sexual abuse of a child in Plum Grove, Texas. Another Salvadoran illegal, who had been deported seven times in the past, is a member of the notoriously violent MS-13 gang; he was charged with committing murder on the same day that the raid took place.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts routine, daily enforcement alongside our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners throughout the Houston community to bolster public safety, national security, and border security,” said an ICE spokesman after the raid.
Colony Ridge has come under greater scrutiny in recent years due to a surge in the illegal population there, perhaps as a result of land sales tactics employed by the developer that exclusively target Hispanics. The area has since become a hotbed of migrant crime; in mid-February, three illegals arrested in a traffic stop were found to be in possession of nearly 350 pounds of methamphetamine. All three illegals had already been deported before.
Texas was one of the first states in the country to begin utilizing state agencies to carry out immigration enforcement. During the Biden Administration, Governor Abbott ordered the state to start constructing makeshift border barriers along the southern border, including the use of buoys in the Rio Grande River and shipping containers along the land border. Attempts by the Biden White House to block the construction of these barriers were unsuccessful.
Texas also passed a law making it a state crime to illegally immigrate into the state. Although state law enforcement was initially alone in cracking down on mass migration under Biden, the Trump Administration has worked much more closely with state leaders to carry out mass deportations.