#Texas: State Legislature eyes on Colony Ridge housing for migrants without documents or means. @Michaael_Yon
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🗓️ 1 October 2023
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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/29/colony-ridge-immigration-texas-politics/
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Prince Vista Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor, joining Michael Jan, |
| 0:04.9 | Michael Underline Jan at Twitter to follow Michael's reporting. He's in Panama City reporting |
| 0:12.7 | on events in Texas. To do with a settlement now, 33,000 acres, 10,000 people living there |
| 0:21.3 | north of Houston called Colony Ridge. It dominates a headline within these last hours of the |
| 0:28.7 | Texas Tribune. Headline, Houston area development has become a right-wing lightning rod on immigration. |
| 0:36.2 | Subhead, after conservative media portrayed the Colony Ridge development north of Houston as a haven |
| 0:42.5 | for legal immigrants, Governor Greg Abbott said the upcoming special legislative session will look |
| 0:49.1 | into the issue. This needs explanation, and the man to do that is Michael Lehan. Michael, |
| 0:56.2 | Colony Ridge. You mentioned this weeks ago, months ago, and I wasn't playing close attention. It's a new |
| 1:03.8 | development north of Houston that is inviting to those without papers, otherwise known as illegal |
| 1:11.5 | immigrants or aliens. I call them migrants because they're restless people, but they've now taken up |
| 1:18.4 | residents 10,000, maybe as money is 10,000, north of Houston. Okay. There's a developer. Okay. He's making |
| 1:26.9 | money. But the turn here is the Texas legislative session is going to hold special remarks on this |
| 1:36.1 | starting mid-October. The governor says so, and the Republicans who dominate the Texas legislature |
| 1:43.0 | have already met to say we're going to get to the bottom of this. What are they so upset about, Michael? |
| 1:48.0 | Good evening, too. Well, it's good. They're upset that America knows what they're up to now. |
| 1:54.1 | You know, Todd Benzman wrote about that Colonia. My good friend, Todd Benzman, he wrote about that |
| 1:59.6 | Colonia in the last chapter of his book called Overrun. The title of the book is Overrun. It's |
| 2:05.1 | the last chapter. So I was with Todd in Texas, and we were briefing some powerful people there. |
| 2:11.4 | And Todd said, hey, Michael, let's go look at the Colonia. He just took me and we went there alone. |
| 2:16.1 | It was massive, north of Houston. And it was too big for drones. I said, let's go to the airport |
| 2:22.1 | and come back with an airplane. And we did. And the ceiling was low that day. We couldn't get high |
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