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BumRushDaShow

(150,218 posts) Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:48 PM Nov 2024

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 2024 OP

Why not call it what it really is Otto_Harper Nov 2024 #1

Just a transit camp for transportation to the South Prairie Gates Nov 2024 #2

I would think most of the "violent criminals" would already be in U.S. jails. Just sayin'. SheilaAnn Nov 2024 #3

No, most of them are Texas Republicans! ananda Nov 2024 #4

Bwah! SheilaAnn Nov 2024 #5

Ab-butt...there's money to line his pockets...that is the ONLY reason PortTack Nov 2024 #6

IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY Jimvanhise Nov 2024 #7

The 24 Democratic state AG's of the Democratic Attorneys General Association and ACLU will be ready. ancianita Nov 2024 #9

I don't know if you've noticed but... perdita9 Nov 2024 #14

True...you can't dump anyone into Mexico that isn't from that Country. Bengus81 Nov 2024 #16

so, it begins prodigitalson Nov 2024 #8

? littlemissmartypants Nov 2024 #10

Texas, hunh? LudwigPastorius Nov 2024 #11

And here is what Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham looks like. Any surprises? C0RI0LANUS Nov 2024 #12

I'm not following. Are all blond white women monsters? milestogo Nov 2024 #18

America is a democracy.... perdita9 Nov 2024 #13

Texas--always the first to step up and do the noble, most moral of actions. scarletlib Nov 2024 #15

Fun fct atreides1 Nov 2024 #17

Otto_Harper

(822 posts)

1. Why not call it what it really is

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:51 PM

Nov 2024

A concentration camp.

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

Prairie Gates

(4,728 posts)

2. Just a transit camp for transportation to the South

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:58 PM

Nov 2024

SheilaAnn

(10,354 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, 07:04 PM

Nov 2024

ananda

(31,458 posts)

4. No, most of them are Texas Republicans!

Reply to SheilaAnn (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:20 PM

Nov 2024

!!!

SheilaAnn

(10,354 posts)

5. Bwah!

Reply to ananda (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:21 PM

Nov 2024

PortTack

(35,476 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, 07:27 PM

Nov 2024

Jimvanhise

(401 posts)

7. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:32 PM

Nov 2024

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

(40,228 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, 10:20 PM

Nov 2024

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

(1,236 posts)

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

Reply to Jimvanhise (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 06:45 AM

Nov 2024

The courts are corrupt. Especially the Supreme Court

Bengus81

(8,592 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, 09:29 AM

Nov 2024

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

prodigitalson

(3,060 posts)

8. so, it begins

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 08:10 PM

Nov 2024

littlemissmartypants

(27,097 posts)

10. ?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:26 PM

Nov 2024

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143343558

LudwigPastorius

(12,073 posts)

11. Texas, hunh?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 12:17 AM

Nov 2024

Will they call it Awwwschwitz or Heckau?

C0RI0LANUS

(3,015 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:15 AM

Nov 2024

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham

milestogo

(20,156 posts)

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

Reply to C0RI0LANUS (Reply #12)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 11:00 AM

Nov 2024

perdita9

(1,236 posts)

13. America is a democracy....

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 06:43 AM

Nov 2024

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

(3,527 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, 08:55 AM

Nov 2024

atreides1

(16,597 posts)

17. Fun fct

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 10:46 AM

Nov 2024

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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