Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has offered state land as staging ground for President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.
In a letter to Trump, Buckingham offered 1,402 acres of Texas land located in the Rio Grande Valley, which is right next to the southern border, to be used as a staging ground for Trump’s planned mass deportations.
She explained in the letter that 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 told Fox News Digital 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.”
The land was purchased by the Texas General Land Office in October as part of an effort to build additional fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, a project from Trump’s first term that was halted by the pro-open-borders Biden-Harris administration. The area was previously part of a private ranch and has seen a significant increase in criminal cartel activity including drug smuggling and human trafficking.
Buckingham told Fox News that she decided to rethink how to best use the property after Trump’s landslide election victory, and the obvious choice was for a deportation zone.
“Right now, it’s essentially farmland, so it’s flat, it’s easy to build on. We could very easily put a detention center on there, a holding place as we get these criminals out of our country,” she said. “It’s accessible to international airports as well as a major crossing over the river. And so we’re just happy to get help, do anything we can to get these violent criminals off of our soil.”
Buckingham further explained that the results of the presidential and congressional elections confirmed that the American people support Trump’s immigration policies and have turned away from the left’s open-borders ideals.
“This election was a resounding referendum on the fact that Americans want safe communities. We want people to immigrate legally and legally only and that the administration’s policies over the last four years have failed every American citizen,” she told Fox News.
🚨TEXAS OFFERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAND TO BUILD MASS DEPORTATION FACILITIES 🇺🇸
“I am writing to formally offer 1402 acres of land in Starr County, Texas to be used to construct deportation facilities” – Dawn Buckingham, Commissioner Texas General land office.
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— Joseph Trimmer (@JosephTrimmer_) November 20, 2024
As the U.S. is just two months away from a second Trump administration, the president-elect has been focusing on getting his transition teams in place and appointing people who will carry out his agenda, especially on the border crisis. Trump has vowed to enact mass deportations, which will start with illegal aliens that have committed additional crimes beyond their initial crime of illegal entry. He also announced that he would be declaring a national emergency in order to use the military to aid in these mass deportations.
Do you support President Trump declaring a national emergency and using military assets to deport illegals immigrants?
A. YES
B. NO pic.twitter.com/h9oOB5rlMD— The Trump Train 🚂🇺🇸 (@The_Trump_Train) November 18, 2024
