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Texas Offers Trump Starr County Farm For Mass Deportation Plans
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Texas Offers Trump Starr County Farm For Mass Deportation Plans

The Texas General Land Office is offering President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre farm in Starr County as a site to build detention centers for the promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. according to a letter the office sent him on Tuesday.

Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in Tuesday’s letter that her office is “fully prepared” to enter into an agreement with any federal agency involved in deporting people from the country “to allow for the construction of a facility to process, detain and coordinate the largest deportation of violent individuals.” criminals in the nation’s history”.

The The state recently bought the land along the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley and announced plans to build a border wall along it. The former owner wouldn’t let the state build a wall there and “actively blocked law enforcement access to the property,” according to the GLO’s letter to Trump.

A Trump campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

A cornerstone of Trump’s campaign was his pledge to crack down on immigration by reversing policies from his first term and mass deportation of undocumented people on a scale the country has not seen in decades. Former assistants – including some who are set to join him – have described incorporating landscaping areas near the border to detain and deport people.

In an interview with Fox News posted on TuesdayBuckingham said he “100 percent agrees with the Trump administration’s commitment to getting these criminals out of our country.”

Buckingham previously said he approved an easement within 24 hours of purchasing the land in Starr County to let the Texas Facilities Commission, which oversees construction of the state’s border wall, begin building a wall. In the Fox interview, she said the move was followed by “brainstorming” with her team.

“We thought, hey, the Trump administration probably needs some deportation facilities because we have a lot of these violent criminals that we need to round up and get the hell out of our country,” Buckingham said. She noted that the land is mostly flat, “easy to build on,” accessible to international airports and close to the Rio Grande.

“We are happy to make this offer and we hope they will accept us,” she added.

Trump vows to deliver mass deportations he is sure to face logistical and legal challenges like those that stifled his first campaign promises once he takes office.

However, Trump’s cabinet picks indicate that he is moving forward in his bid to carry out the deportations. He tapped Stephen Miller, an architect of the previous Trump administration’s border and immigration policy, to return as a top aide and named Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as his “border czar.” .

And Texas is ready to do it try to help him implement the policies. After Trump leaves office in 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott launched an unprecedented border enforcement operation which included building a military base in Eagle Pass and the deployment of thousands of Department of Public Safety and National Guard troops to the border.

CNN reported On Saturday, Texas’ “frontier czar” — Michael Banks, who serves as a special adviser to Abbott — was part of behind-the-scenes discussions with Trump’s team about immigration initiatives.