The Texas General Land Office said it has offered President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre ranch in a county located near the U.S.–Mexico border to build centers for mass deportations.
Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in a Nov. 19 letter to the president-elect that the land in Starr County was recently purchased by the state.
“I am writing to formally offer 1,402 acres of land in Starr County, Texas, to be used to construct deportation facilities,” Buckingham wrote in the letter, adding that it’s located about 35 miles to the west of McAllen, Texas.
Adding that her office is “fully prepared” to work with federal immigration agencies, she said a facility could be built on the tract of land for “processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history,” echoing campaign statements made by Trump and his surrogates regarding his mass deportation plan….