America’s so-called migrant “colonias” are exploding in size amidst Joe Biden’s ongoing-yet-underreported border crisis, with one of the largest known enclaves now hosting a whopping 75,000+ people.
Colonias – Spanish for “colonies” – have been growing on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico for decades, and are populated largely by people with a Latino migration background. Around 2,000 such makeshift communities, often slum-like, are now spread across border states such as California, New Mexico, and especially Texas, housing at least 850,000.
Unincorporated neighborhoods established on largely undeveloped land, often in rural floodplains, living conditions in colonias resemble those in the third world. Around a third of residents have no access to clean drinking water, sewage, electricity, or paved roads. The largest appears to be Colony Ridge in Texas, described as a “sketchy assemblage of cheap single-family houses, mobile homes and hastily constructed shacks”. It has been developed over the past decade by Trey Harris – a megadonor to Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
Colony Ridge is aimed implicitly at illegal alien customers, with marketers Terrenos Houston advertising that financing is available with just an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number – no proof of citizenship is required.
The Gulf and Sinaloa cartels have “invested in Colony Ridge from its inception, financing lots for local operatives to run safe houses through which they move smuggled drugs and people from the border to interior America,” according to Congressional testimony.
Heinous crimes have accompanied this criminal connection, including a high-profile case in April involving the murder of a family of five by an illegal alien – who was in the United States despite four previous deportations.
