Colony Ridge is an illegal-immigrant "Colonia" of Liberty County, Texas.
️ According to local law enforcement and the developers, a majority of residents are undocumented immigrants, with most of the other residents being United States-born persons of Latin American origins. The lack of requiring Social Security allowed people who did not legally immigrate to the United States to acquire property. In the State of Texas, and under federal law, people without United States citizenship may legally purchase land. Forrest Wilder of Texas Monthly stated that those attributes caused it to be "one of the fastest-growing parts of Texas".
️ In September 2022, passersby in Colony Ridge found the body of a 16-year-old Honduran girl who’d been shot to death and dumped in a ditch by the side of a road, still wearing her uniform from her work bussing tables at a local restaurant.
️ Evidence of cartel involvement dates to the earliest days of the illegal-alien settlement boom. To at least 2013, when federal, state, and local investigators raided a Mexican drug cartel’s marijuana grow operation on 300 acres in Liberty County, finding explosives, 6,000 marijuana plants, worker bunk houses, and guard towers.
️ The San Jacinto County murders involving neighbors earlier this year put a spotlight on the Colony Ridge community and growing stress illegal immigration puts on local communities:
️ "Whether it's the owner-financed loans that are going predominantly to illegal aliens. Whether it's the drainage problems that are causing people who are downstream in the water shed to be at much higher risk of flooding. The dumping of waste into local waterways and into drainage ditches," says Russo.
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