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Texas Hands Over Massive Plot of Land to Trump for Deportations

Texas is getting ready to ship the millions of illegal immigrants it garnered during the Biden-Harris Administration back to Mexico as President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans begin to commence. 

The Lonestar State is offering Trump a 1,402-acre parcel of rural ranch land in Starr County, Rio Grande Valley, along the U.S.-Mexico border, to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations. 

In a letter, Republican Dawn Buckingham, the Texas Land Commissioner, told Trump to use the land for his construction of large-scale deportation facilities to facilitate the “processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.” 

Buckingham also assured the president-elect that her office would cooperate with federal agencies to begin work on the detention center.

Last month, immediately upon purchasing the land, Buckingham granted a 7,681-foot (1.45-mile) easement around the land to allow federal agencies the power to build a border wall. The previous owner refused to allow a border wall to be constructed and blocked law enforcement from accessing the property. 

Her letter vowed to completely stand out of the way with the Trump Administration’s massive deployment agenda. 

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. 

At my direction, since serving as the head of this agency, the [Texas General Land Office] has won several significant victories in the fight to repel cartel activities along our border. I am committed to using every available means at my disposal to gain complete operational security of our border. 

Trump’s mass deportation will begin with “Operation Aurora” in Aurora, Colorado after the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua invaded "multiple apartment complexes” in the city. He promised to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove gang members from the U.S. and to "target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil.”