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Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham recently wrote to President Donald Trump, offering him 1,402 acres in Starr County near the border as a location for mass deportation operations.
The offer was first revealed in a report by Fox News on Wednesday.
Cunningham said her 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.”
“What I care about is that we have safe communities, and there is no doubt that we are losing too many of our children to these violent criminals that are coming across the border,” Buckingham added in an interview with the network on Tuesday.
“I am 100% on board with the Trump administration’s pledge to get these criminals out of our country, and we are more than happy to offer our resources to facilitate those deportations of these violent criminals,” she continued.
The Texas General Land Office originally purchased the land in October with plans to construct its own border wall in the area. The location in the Rio Grande Valley sector was once the location of a ranch.
The news comes shortly after Trump announced that Tom Homan will serve as the border leader of his mass deportation efforts.
Homan previously served as the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first term.
“I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (‘The Border Czar’), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job,” he continued.