Just finished reading the full court document: The settlement reached with Colony Ridge by @HarmeetKDhillon and @KenPaxtonTX is fascinating.
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) February 11, 2026
When I first joined @realDailyWire in July 2023, this was the first investigation I worked on. @SpencerLndqst had just returned from a… pic.twitter.com/e277vcSdVN
Just finished reading the full court document: The settlement reached with Colony Ridge by
@HarmeetKDhillon
and
@KenPaxtonTX
is fascinating.When I first joined
@realDailyWire
in July 2023, this was the first investigation I worked on.
@SpencerLndqst
had just returned from a trip to Colony Ridge, and his description of what he saw was almost hard to believe. It was the fastest-growing housing development in America, fueled by illegal immigrants pouring into the country. All advertising was in Spanish, and the business model clearly targeted illegal immigrants: sell them substandard land at sky-high interest rates, foreclose when they default, then restart the cycle with another illegal immigrant. Drug cartels gained a foothold, and murders and other violent crime became routine.Important background: This federal lawsuit was initially brought by the Biden administration, based on
@realDailyWire
reporting about how Colony Ridge marketed to illegal aliens. The defrauded class was the illegal immigrants themselves. But the settlement was reached under Trump—and now Colony Ridge is set to become illegal-immigrant-free.Colony Ridge is ordered to spend $50 million to fix the infrastructure problems that made it a terrible place to live for the illegals it sold to—but it is also agreeing to terms that make it impossible to sell to illegals going forward. Buyers must have a Texas-issued identification (so no blue-state IDs will suffice) or a legal visa issued since Trump took office in 2025.
Colony Ridge is also required to spend $20 million on a law enforcement center inside the development. As
@KenPaxtonTX
notes, Texas is empowered by 287(g), which delegates immigration enforcement authority to local law enforcement. So the new police presence will likely lead to more deportations in a development where hundreds have already been rounded up.A truly incredible solution to what seemed like an insurmountable problem—all thanks to the dogged reporting from
@SpencerLndqst
, who was more obsessed with Colony Ridge than I’ve ever seen a reporter obsessed with anything. He stayed on it for two years, and it made a difference for Texas and America.
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