Rarely Quoted Sheriffs: Mexican Cartels Do Operate in and Around Controversial Texas Illegal Immigrant Community
And federal law enforcement won’t go near the region surrounding the Colony Ridge Development of Liberty County, Texas
By Todd Bensman on October 5, 2023
Liberty County Sheriff Bobby Rader and San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers
Liberty County Sheriff Bobby Rader (left) and San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers (right) are high-credibility law enforcement professionals who openly proclaim that a booming community of 75,000 foreign nationals brought cartels and crime with them that federal law enforcement has ignored and current policing levels are incapable of managing.
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent promises to commit significant political and law enforcement capital to address the booming and controversial “Colony Ridge” housing development in Liberty County has provoked a counter-campaign from its developer to dispute various claims about the community that drove the governor’s decisions.
The governor recently promised a special legislative session and ordered a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper surge into Liberty County in response to published reports that illegal immigrants have flooded into Colony Ridge and surrounding counties, and that dangerous Mexican cartels have taken root there because federal law enforcement has neglected the rapidly booming town. An estimated 50,000-75,000 people live in Colony Ridge after responding to internet ads promising that they can “own land in the United States”, and can buy through unconventional, high-interest, owner-to-buyer loans ranging as high as 15 percent.
In recent weeks, local, state, and national media have descended on the controversy to quote the developers, brothers Trey and John Harris and their Terranos Houston company, insisting that illegal immigrants are no more numerous in Colony Ridge than anywhere else, that there is little if any Mexican cartel activity or crime there, and that the region is not a “no-go” zone for federal, state, and local law enforcement.
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