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Cleveland, Texas – Colony Ridge, an illegal immigrant and cartel-fested Texas housing development that was attacked by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, is one of the strangest places I’ve ever had and I’m spinning.
My colleague Elizabeth and I entered Colony Ridge from Plum Grove. There, murders occurred this week, even as the federal government arrested around 90 illegal immigrant criminals.
When Elizabeth found two stations on the Texas Public Safety Cruiser and said, “Let’s follow them,” my head was buried in the GPS on my cell phone.
Once inside, Colony Ridge, about 30 miles northeast of Houston, is a strange dead-end maze of corn, with accidental homes running out. That’s hardly understood. If I drop me in the middle of the colony ridge without a map, I don’t know if I can make it.
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But we didn’t need a map as we chased law enforcement, but five minutes later, in the middle of a strange sprawl, they flashed lights on two Liberty County Sheriff’s cruisers and two unmarked cars.
Elizabeth and I walked towards the taco truck along with a makeshift bar, spotted four officers from the Department of Homeland Security police and spoke to the few man wearing a t-shirt reading “Honduras” next to a white van without a license plate.
If I drop me in the middle of the colony ridge without a map, I don’t know if I can make it.
I held my hand at the sheriff, notebook and one of the pens, trying to assess the situation. “Sorry,” I started, but without immediately taking a lighter note, simply saying “no.”
None of the law enforcement branches were trying to answer the questions.
Why are the dilemma you are facing at Colony Ridge? It’s a spread of uneven homes covered in roads, abandoned cars, trucks and muddy roads everywhere, which is why the Environmental Protection Agency has launched an investigation.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that an illegal immigration operation was carried out near Houston in an area known as the colony, resulting in 118 illegal immigrants being arrested. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/Ice)
What is the purpose of this place? “That doesn’t make sense,” local business owner George Culler told me. It is difficult to draw conclusions other than the fact that this whole massive development was designed to be sold to illegal immigrants. It’s the perfect place to hide.
Floyd, who runs the barbecue for another nearby business owner, Fat Floyd, expressed sympathy for the residents. “These people work hard,” he told us, but added, “Of course you have to drive out the criminals.”
In the Taco truck parking lot, the conversation between the DHS officer and the man appears to be detained, but there was some laughs, civil, almost heartfelt. We then saw a woman in the van and two children. The little one is cute like the buttons on a blue and white Honduras soccer jersey.
I thought this family might be about to be taken away. However, after a lot of confusion was brought to life by law enforcement and some files checked out, the family was free to go, and the police car ran deep into the colony ridge.
A regular customer at George Cullers Wagon Wheel Restaurant in Cleveland, Texas, says illegal immigration has changed the character of the community. (Fox News Digital)
There was no one in the 60-square-mile development, probably due to the recent raid. It felt like a village in Potomkin, as if it wasn’t the real thing, but a kind of trickery.
Many of the houses are ram shackle trailers, but others boast, with Takamon, barbed wire and flashy cars in their driveways. Patriotism was displayed around with flags, but not the American flag, but the Mexican flag.
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I was delighted that my family was released. In my opinion, I saw the child being shuffled around the child’s protective services and being scared. But we don’t know if this family is legally here, or if it’s not a priority if the DHS decides it’s not just a threat.
Within Colony Ridge, reality is much more complicated than any of the extreme arguments in the illicit immigration debate admits. These are humans, not fragments on the game board.
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It’s difficult to know what Colony Ridge’s solution is. If the offender is weeded but is permitted to stay, or if it has been dismantled through state or federal actions. But in any case, it stands as a testament to the disruptive power of our open border policy.
Closing the border is obviously a good first start, but how about millions already here? Colony Ridge, and across the United States, that question has not yet been answered.
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Elizabeth Heckman of Fox News Digital contributed to this report
