Texas Border: "Mass Deportation Facility" for Trump Moves Closer to Reality
Texas offers President-Elect Trump 1,402 acres on the Rio Grande
Plans for what will likely be a huge "Mass Deportation Facility" along the Texas Border with Mexico appear to be rapidly coming together. The site for the facility is 1,400+ acres in Starr County the Texas General Land Office purchased last month to allow state-financed expansion of the "Border Wall."
On November 19, 2024, Texas Land Commissioner Dr. Dawn Buckingham sent a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump offering the use of the massive property "for the construction of deportation facilities and staging areas to carry out the Trump Administration’s plans to deport illegal immigrants beginning in 2025."
"As Texas Land Commissioner ... it's been my promise to all Texans since assuming my role at the GLO to use every tool at my disposal to gain complete operational control of our southern border. This is why I am offering President-elect Trump over 1,400 acres of state land on the southern border to aid his administration in carrying out their deportation plans to place the safety and well-being of all Americans first and foremost." Dr. Dawn Buckingham, Texas Land Commissioner
Tom Homan, who President-Elect Trump has designated to become his "Border Czar", told "Fox News’ “’The Ingraham Angle" this week that the administration will "absolutely" use the land Texas has offered.
Dr. Buckingham says the state's offer was a no-brainer:
“We figured, hey, the Trump administration probably needs some deportation facilities because we've got a lot of these violent criminals that we need to round up and get the heck out of our country,” Buckingham told the Texas Tribune. She says the land is mostly flat, “easy to build on,” accessible to international airports and near the Rio Grande.
President-Elect Trump's incoming "Border Czar" Tom Homan says his agency will target those in the country illegally who have a criminal history.
"It's going to be public safety threats and national security threats (that) will be the priority," Homan told Scripps News.
Scripps - citing fall numbers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement - reports there are currently 662,566 non-citizens in the US with criminal convictions or pending charges, largely for assault and drug offenses.
He will need a lot of space to detain them until arrangements can be made with the countries they came from to accept them before the deportations occur.
The incoming administration is also considering revoking protections for migrants covered by Biden’s humanitarian parole programs as well as holding those caught entering the country illegally until they can deported - instead of releasing them with "notices to appear" in court as is done now because there are not enough federal facilities to hold them all pending deportation arrangements.
Again - the Trump Administration would need a lot of space to house those detainees - and the Texas offer of 1,402 acres right on the border will likely fit the bill.
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
