Texas Offers ‘Land Everywhere’ for Trump Deportation Centers

December 10, 2024, 12:00 PM UTC

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is throwing the state’s vast public lands behind President-elect Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

Buckingham last month offered about 1,400 acres (567 hectares) in a border county as a potential site to build deportation facilities. Now she’s vowing to provide additional land as needed from the 13 million acres her office controls, an area almost twice the size of Belgium.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham
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“We have land everywhere in the state,” said Buckingham, adding that her team has identified suitable properties near El Paso and has software it can use to find other sites. “We’ll just ...

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