The Texas General Land Office is offering Donald Trump a 1,400-acre ranch on the Mexico border “for the construction of deportation facilities and staging...
A file photo shows a Texas National Guard soldier watching over the Rio Grande in Starr County, Texas, April 10, 2018. The National Guard began a controversial mobilization on the southern border, soldiers are trying to fulfill two seemingly contradictory missions: standing out, and blending in.on the state’s border with Mexico “for the construction of deportation facilities and staging areas” to deport illegal immigrants starting next year.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham penned a letter to Trump on Tuesday saying her office is prepared to enter an agreement with federal agencies to build a facility for the “processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.
The previous landowner refused to let a wall be built on the property and actively blocked law enforcement from entering the area, Buckingham wrote in her letter to Trump.“I am committed to using every available means at my disposal to gain complete operational security for our border,” Buckingham wrote.
Starr County is part of the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, which has recorded approximately 1.4 million migrant encounters crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into South Texas since January 2021, according to the land office.GOP inroads with Latino voters dim Democratic dreams of a blue TexasLana Ferguson joined The Dallas Morning News after reporting in South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette newspapers.
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