More than 100 illegal aliens were captured on Monday in the joint deportation operation from the Department of Homeland Security and the Texas Department of Public Safety inside Colony Ridge, the massive Texas development that The Daily Wire exposed as a magnet for illegal aliens.
Border czar Tom Homan described Monday’s actions as “phase one” of a “larger criminal investigation.” He also highlighted the number of criminal illegal aliens inside Colony Ridge.
“This is something a little different today,” Homan said to Fox News. “You know, this is a larger criminal investigation into a network. And a lot of the people we were interested in were located in that area.” ICE reported that a total of 118 illegal aliens, including some suspected of homicide, manslaughter, manslaughter, and child sexual abuse, were caught at the development.
“The last number I saw was around 69 criminals,” Homan added, discussing those who have criminal records beyond entering the United States illegally. “I know for a fact, several child sexual predators were arrested.”
One of those alleged child sexual predators was Florentin Chevez-Luna, a 39-year-old, three-time previously deported criminal alien from El Salvador.
An ICE spokesman told The Daily Wire that Chevez-Luna “was arrested by ICE and Texas DPS pursuant to a criminal arrest warrant for alleged repeated sexual abuse of a minor over an eight-year period from November 2008 to November 2016.”
Colony Ridge CEO John Harris said that he was thankful for the efforts to arrest the criminal illegal aliens living in the development.
“We are grateful for the efforts of Governor Abbott, Tom Homan and all those involved in rooting out criminal illegals in Texas,” Harris stated. “In fact, DPS officers have been working throughout Colony Ridge for more than two years. They know who the bad guys are, so we are fully supportive of these efforts.”
He also went on to claim that Colony Ridge is “one of the safest communities of its size anywhere in Texas” despite the raid revealing that criminal illegal aliens were active in the area.
Colony Ridge, just north of Houston, has systematically attracted illegal aliens to the development, encouraging buyers to “own land in the United States” and advertising that land purchases can be made without social security numbers. A litany of criminal illegal aliens, including drug runners and murder suspects, have been caught in Colony Ridge even before the latest raid.
This story has been updated to reflect an increase in the number of illegal aliens that authorities report were captured at Colony Ridge.
