{"id":128278,"date":"2024-11-21T04:26:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128278"},"modified":"2024-11-21T04:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:26:58","slug":"texas-offers-thousands-of-acres-to-trump-for-deportation-facilities-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128278","title":{"rendered":"Texas offers thousands of acres to Trump for \u2018deportation facilities\u2019 | Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Texas<\/a> has offered thousands of acres of land to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u201cto construct deportation facilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Texas land commissioner Dawn Buckingham wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glo.texas.gov\/the-glo\/news\/press-releases\/2024\/files\/11-19-24_trump-donald-starr-county-offer.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">letter<\/a> to Trump that his \u201coffice is fully prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the US 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\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">In October, Buckingham\u2019s office, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Texas<\/a> general land office (GLO), purchased 355,000 acres of land \u2013 equivalent to half the size of Rhode Island. Of this, 1,402 acres has been offered to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The land sits on a ranch in Starr county in the Rio Grande Valley on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-mexico-border\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">US-Mexico border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Terms of the purchase were not disclosed, but Buckingham writes in his letter that the land was purchased from a woman who previously refused to let state officials build a border wall on her property. Now, the state plans to build 1.5 miles of the border wall where they were once denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The rest of the 353, 598 acres, collectively known as \u201cBrewster Ranch\u201d, located near Big Bend national park, were <a href=\"https:\/\/trerc.tamu.edu\/news-talk\/glo-buys-two-ranches-totaling-355k-acres-near-border\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">purchased<\/a> in October for roughly $245m from billionaire and tobacco tycoon Brad Kelley, the state\u2019s largest private landowner. It was one of the most significant public purchases of land in the history of Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Such an offer to Trump comes in the wake of campaign where he promised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2024\/oct\/31\/election-trump-immigration-policies\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">immigration crackdowns<\/a>. Trump confirmed on Monday that he plans to declare a national emergency and activate the US military to carry out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/18\/trump-military-mass-deportation\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">mass deportations of undocumented immigrants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The president-elect has also appointed former ICE director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/12\/who-is-tom-homan-trump-border-czar\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Tom Homan<\/a> as his border czar, who has vowed to carry out \u201cthe biggest deportation force this country has ever seen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cThey ain\u2019t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025,\u201d the Heritage Foundation fellow and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/project-2025\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Project 2025<\/a> contributor said before his official appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">When questioned about policies in the previous Trump administration that led to family separation in an interview for CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes, Homan said there was a simple solution: \u201cFamilies can be deported together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Buckingham said he is \u201ccommitted to using every available means at my disposal to gain complete operational security of our border\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/20\/trump-texas-mass-deportation-facilities\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Texas has offered thousands of acres of land to Donald Trump \u201cto construct deportation facilities\u201d. 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