Texas lawmakers questioned the need for a House hearing investigating Colony Ridge, a community accused of housing undocumented migrants.
A House hearing on Thursday had lawmakers questioning why the hearing was even taking place, as they respond to Governor Greg Abbott's call to investigate a Houston-area community accused of housing undocumented migrants.
"The most important thing we did for our customers is to provide financing that they couldn't get anywhere else," Harris told the committee. "And that allowed them to move onto the property quicker, and it allowed us to grow." "The development appears to be attracting and enabling illegal alien settlement in the state of Texas and distressing neighboring cities and school districts," Paxton said in the letter. "Complaints from nearby communities about the development’s scale of growth and unmanageable externalities reveal that 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.
Harris, who had not had time to read the letter by the time he spoke with journalists, as it had been released while he was testifying in the committee hearing, said he would not criticize Paxton or Abbott and instead urged the state leaders to visit Colony Ridge themselves.
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