{"id":227101,"date":"2026-03-30T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:42:10","slug":"immigration-enforcement-is-slowing-houstons-growth-thats-good-news-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227101\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Enforcement Is Slowing Houston’s Growth, That’s Good News | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas\u2019 metro areas\u2014primarily the Austin, DFW, and Houston areas, which comprise the Texas Triangle\u2014have seen massive population booms for years. But here in Houston, that growth seems to be slowing down, and there\u2019s a good reason why.<\/p>\n

According to the Houston Chronicle<\/a>, there was a sharp slowdown in Houston\u2019s growth in 2025, with the Houston area adding just 127,000 new residents. That\u2019s reportedly one-third lower than the growth seen in 2024. The Chronicle blamed this slowdown on President Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

If they\u2019re right, that confirms something many immigration hawks have suspected for some time: Illegal aliens are flooding the Houston area. Chris Russo with Texans for Strong Borders<\/a> says he believes some illegal aliens made it to the Houston area within just a few days of illegally entering the United States. \u201cPeople would come in at the southern border, and they\u2019d quickly make their way into the Houston area. We saw a huge influx of foreign nationals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Russo went on to point out that the rapid population growth we\u2019ve seen has been somewhat unmanageable, and its slowing could be the relief Houston needs. \u201cLeadership in Harris County has talked about for years the strain that this rapid growth has put on our infrastructure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that population growth has caused an increase in the supply of labor, which suppresses wages, and an increase in demand in Houston, which drives housing costs higher. He says slowing that growth down could help alleviate that as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 metro areas\u2014primarily the Austin, DFW, and Houston areas, which comprise the Texas Triangle\u2014have seen massive population booms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-227101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}