Texas land commissioner offers 1,402 acres to Trump for 'deportation facilities' [View all]

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.

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