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(NewsNation) — Texas officials person offered to lease much than 1,400 acres of state-owned borderland to President-elect Donald Trump's incoming medication to conception deportation facilities, according to a missive from the Texas General Land Office (GLO) obtained Tuesday.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham in a missive to Trump said, " I americium penning to formally connection 1,402 acres of onshore successful Starr County, Texas, to beryllium utilized to conception deportation facilities."
The property, located astir 35 miles westbound of McAllen successful Starr County, was precocious acquired by the GLO. The missive reveals that wrong 24 hours of the Oct. 23 purchase, Buckingham approved a 7,681-foot borderline partition easement crossed the property.
The missive details GLO's caller border security initiatives, including "Operation Flat Top," which secured a 170-acre land successful the Rio Grande antecedently described by authorities authorities arsenic "the astir unsafe portion of the Texas border."
Buckingham stated the onshore could beryllium utilized for "processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of convulsive criminals successful the nation's history" successful practice with national agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol.
The Texas GLO, which oversees 13 cardinal acres of authorities lands, confirmed the connection done a spokesperson.
This comes arsenic Texas Gov. Greg Abbott plans to expand buoy barriers across the Rio Grande to halt migrants from crossing the confederate borderline contempt borderline crossings dropping successful the state.
Abbott has maintained that Texas volition person a proactive versus reactive stance astatine the borderline and volition beryllium prepared should a surge hap up of Trump’s inauguration.
Border officials are present grooming for an expected surge in migrant crossings before President-elect Donald Trump takes the White House.
The Texas National Guard is holding exercises successful conjunction with the Texas Department of Public Safety on the Southern borderline successful Eagle Pass connected Tuesday.
These proactive measures began past week with groups divided to screen much crushed crossed the immense Southern border.
