In Starr County, Texas, where area director Dawn Buckingham is based, offered 1, 402 acres of land to the president-elect for his expected mass deportation function in a letter to the president-elect on Tuesday.
According to Fox News, Buckingham’s present to Trump comes after the condition purchased 1, 402 hectares in Starr County from a house owner in October. According to authorities, the house has been used for individual prostitution and drug trafficking because it is located in the Rio Grande Valley field near the southern border. The express purchased the land at the time to assist in building more border wall security.
In her letter to the president-elect, Buckingham said her condition department 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 let a service to be built for the control, confinement, and cooperation of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history”.
Buckingham stated in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that “what I care about is that we have protected areas, and there is no denying that we are losing too many of our kids to these violent offenders that are coming across the frontier.”
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The Texas land commissioner stated that she is” 100 % on board” with Trump’s plans to deport dangerous illegal immigrants from the country and that Texas is “more than happy to offer our resources to facilitate these deportations of these violent criminals.”
Following Trump’s landslide in the 2024 presidential election, Buckingham and her team discussed how to use the newly acquired land, and Buckingham ultimately agreed to give it to the Trump administration.
” Right now, it’s essentially farmland, so it’s flat, it’s easy to build on. As we remove these criminals from our country,” we could very easily construct a detention facility there,” Buckingham told Fox News. International airports and a significant river crossing are within walking distance. And so we’re just happy to receive assistance and take every possible step to remove these violent criminals from our country.
Buckingham added that Trump’s victory in the 2024 election was a “resounding referendum on the need for safe communities” The Texas land commissioner explained that Americans want people to immigrate to the country “legally” and that the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies “have failed every American citizen”.