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BumRushDaShow

(145,380 posts) Wed Nov 20, 2024, 05:48 PM Nov 20

Texas land commissioner offers 1,402 acres to Trump for 'deportation facilities'

Source: ABC News

November 20, 2024, 11:30 AM

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres the state purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation.

In a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, Buckingham said she's offering the land "to be used to construct deportation facilities."

The Texas General Land Office purchased the plot of land from a farmer in October to facilitate Texas' efforts to build a wall.

"My office is fully prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the United States Border Patrol to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history," Buckingham wrote in the letter, dated Tuesday.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-land-commissioner-offers-acres-trump-deportation/story?id=116048937

Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://www.glo.texas.gov/the-glo/news/press-releases/2024/files/11-19-24_trump-donald-starr-county-offer.pdf

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Texas land commissioner offers 1,402 acres to Trump for 'deportation facilities' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 20 OP

Why not call it what it really is Otto_Harper Nov 20 #1

Just a transit camp for transportation to the South Prairie Gates Nov 20 #2

I would think most of the "violent criminals" would already be in U.S. jails. Just sayin'. SheilaAnn Nov 20 #3

No, most of them are Texas Republicans! ananda Nov 20 #4

Bwah! SheilaAnn Nov 20 #5

Ab-butt...there's money to line his pockets...that is the ONLY reason PortTack Nov 20 #6

IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY Jimvanhise Nov 20 #7

The 24 Democratic state AG's of the Democratic Attorneys General Association and ACLU will be ready. ancianita Nov 20 #9

I don't know if you've noticed but... perdita9 Nov 21 #14

True...you can't dump anyone into Mexico that isn't from that Country. Bengus81 Nov 21 #16

so, it begins prodigitalson Nov 20 #8

? littlemissmartypants Nov 20 #10

Texas, hunh? LudwigPastorius Nov 20 #11

And here is what Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham looks like. Any surprises? C0RI0LANUS Nov 21 #12

I'm not following. Are all blond white women monsters? milestogo Nov 21 #18

America is a democracy.... perdita9 Nov 21 #13

Texas--always the first to step up and do the noble, most moral of actions. scarletlib Nov 21 #15

Fun fct atreides1 Nov 21 #17

Otto_Harper

(776 posts)

1. Why not call it what it really is

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 05:51 PM

Nov 20

A concentration camp.

My family has had some experience with those things. I am so distressed by this I can barely type.

Prairie Gates

(3,698 posts)

2. Just a transit camp for transportation to the South

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 05:58 PM

Nov 20

SheilaAnn

(10,260 posts)

3. I would think most of the "violent criminals" would already be in U.S. jails. Just sayin'.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:04 PM

Nov 20

ananda

(31,053 posts)

4. No, most of them are Texas Republicans!

Reply to SheilaAnn (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:20 PM

Nov 20

!!!

SheilaAnn

(10,260 posts)

5. Bwah!

Reply to ananda (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:21 PM

Nov 20

PortTack

(34,982 posts)

6. Ab-butt...there's money to line his pockets...that is the ONLY reason

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:27 PM

Nov 20

Jimvanhise

(380 posts)

7. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:32 PM

Nov 20

There is a process to deport people. You can't just round them up, stick them on a plane and ship them somewhere. Although I wouldn't be surprised if Trump and his cronies try to undo all of that. The thing is, there are organizations already filing lawsuits against the mass deportation efforts. They were caught by surprise by the hideous things done in the first Trump administration, but they are ready for the monster this time.

ancianita

(39,082 posts)

9. The 24 Democratic state AG's of the Democratic Attorneys General Association and ACLU will be ready.

Reply to Jimvanhise (Reply #7)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:20 PM

Nov 20

https://abcnews.go.com/US/immigration-litigation-prepared-advocacy-groups-democratic-leaders/story?id=115915848

The 24 Democratic state attorneys general across the United States hope to present a unified front to block the Trump administration's immigration policy by using his first term as a blueprint, according to Sean Rankin, the president of the Democratic Attorneys General Association...

One of Homan's targets in his mass deportation plan are sanctuary states and cities -- places that have enacted laws designed at protecting undocumented immigrants. The policies, which vary by state, generally prohibit city officials from cooperating with the federal immigration authorities.

"They better get the hell out of the way," Homan said last week, regarding the governors of sanctuary states. "Either you help us or get the hell out of the way, because ICE is going to do their job."

Leaders in several sanctuary cities have said they are going to fight back using all the tools legally available to protect immigrant communities.

perdita9

(1,197 posts)

14. I don't know if you've noticed but...

Reply to Jimvanhise (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:45 AM

Nov 21

The courts are corrupt. Especially the Supreme Court

Bengus81

(7,584 posts)

16. True...you can't dump anyone into Mexico that isn't from that Country.

Reply to Jimvanhise (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:29 AM

Nov 21

You have to take them back to their Country of origin IF they agree to take them back.

prodigitalson

(2,977 posts)

8. so, it begins

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:10 PM

Nov 20

littlemissmartypants

(26,077 posts)

10. ?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:26 PM

Nov 20

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143343558

LudwigPastorius

(11,271 posts)

11. Texas, hunh?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 11:17 PM

Nov 20

Will they call it Awwwschwitz or Heckau?

C0RI0LANUS

(2,388 posts)

12. And here is what Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham looks like. Any surprises?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 04:15 AM

Nov 21

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham

milestogo

(18,573 posts)

18. I'm not following. Are all blond white women monsters?

Reply to C0RI0LANUS (Reply #12)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 10:00 AM

Nov 21

perdita9

(1,197 posts)

13. America is a democracy....

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:43 AM

Nov 21

Which has voted for its own destruction.

We might survive the next four years or we might not. Votes have consequences. Whoever voted for the monster needs to remember that.

scarletlib

(3,506 posts)

15. Texas--always the first to step up and do the noble, most moral of actions.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 07:55 AM

Nov 21

atreides1

(16,456 posts)

17. Fun fct

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 09:46 AM

Nov 21

Auschwitz-Birkenau covered 500 acres, and it was the largest camp in the system!

And the Texas land commissioner is another Ilse Koch, look it up

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