Attorney General Ken Paxton Sends Letter to Members of Congress Sharing Analysis of Colony Ridge Issue
October 20, 2023 | Austin, TX
Images above taken by members of the Montgomery County GOP Legislative Committee on a visit to Colony Ridge.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has outlined some disturbing facts about Colony Ridge in a recent letter to the Texas GOP Congressional Delegation. You can read the full letter here.
Paxton says what started as a five-acre area now spans tens of thousands of acres, and “the scale of the Colony Ridge development has proved unmanageable for effective law enforcement and other key standards of acceptable governance.”
He further states, “It is a sprawling, highly populated settlement that will soon outpace the population of many cities in Texas yet is ungoverned by any meaningful authority other than the developers whose primary interest is selling more property to new residents.”
“This unincorporated settlement has drawn far too many people and enabled far too much chaos for the current arrangement to be tolerated by the state,” said Paxton. Gov. Abbott has tasked the Texas Legislature with finding a legislative solution to Colony Ridge this special session.
Paxton wrote to the Texas GOP Congressional Delegation because Biden’s open-border policies have exacerbated the problem. Colony Ridge is a magnet for the Biden administration’s wide open southern border.
Background
Colony Ridge has garnered national and state attention, with the entire US Congressional delegation from Texas calling on both Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton to investigate the development located in Liberty County. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and Texas Representative Steve Toth (HD 15) have both toured Colony Ridge. And the Texas GOP authored a resolution calling on the Governor to call a special session on Colony Ridge; Special Session #3 began on October 9.
Read updates on Special Session #3 from the Montgomery County Republican Party (MCRP) Legislative Committee here.
Take Action
1) Continue to contact your Texas Senator, Representative, and Governor Abbott’s office and urge them to support border security and Colony Ridge legislation in Special Session #3.
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Visit gov.texas.gov/apps/contact-us/opinion, enter your contact information, select “Border Security” as the issue, and leave your message.
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2) Attend the upcoming flag-waving rallies to protest open borders, illegal aliens crossing into U.S. territory, child & human trafficking (slavery), and drug trafficking.