Texas land commissioner offers 1,402 acres to Trump for 'deportation facilities'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

November 20, 2024, 11:30 AM


Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres the state purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation.

In a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, Buckingham said she's offering the land "to be used to construct deportation facilities."

The Texas General Land Office purchased the plot of land from a farmer in October to facilitate Texas' efforts to build a wall.

"My 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," Buckingham wrote in the letter, dated Tuesday.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-land-commissioner-offers-acres-trump-deportation/story?id=116048937

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Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://www.glo.texas.gov/the-glo/news/press-releases/2024/files/11-19-24_trump-donald-starr-county-offer.pdf

[Otto_Harper]

1. Why not call it what it really is

A concentration camp.

My family has had some experience with those things. I am so distressed by this I can barely type.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Just a transit camp for transportation to the South

[SheilaAnn]

3. I would think most of the "violent criminals" would already be in U.S. jails. Just sayin'.

[ananda]

4. No, most of them are Texas Republicans!

!!!

[SheilaAnn]

5. Bwah!

[PortTack]

6. Ab-butt...there's money to line his pockets...that is the ONLY reason

[Jimvanhise]

7. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY

There is a process to deport people. You can't just round them up, stick them on a plane and ship them somewhere. Although I wouldn't be surprised if Trump and his cronies try to undo all of that. The thing is, there are organizations already filing lawsuits against the mass deportation efforts. They were caught by surprise by the hideous things done in the first Trump administration, but they are ready for the monster this time.

[ancianita]

9. The 24 Democratic state AG's of the Democratic Attorneys General Association and ACLU will be ready.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/immigration-litigation-prepared-advocacy-groups-democratic-leaders/story?id=115915848

The 24 Democratic state attorneys general across the United States hope to present a unified front to block the Trump administration's immigration policy by using his first term as a blueprint, according to Sean Rankin, the president of the Democratic Attorneys General Association...

One of Homan's targets in his mass deportation plan are sanctuary states and cities -- places that have enacted laws designed at protecting undocumented immigrants. The policies, which vary by state, generally prohibit city officials from cooperating with the federal immigration authorities.

"They better get the hell out of the way," Homan said last week, regarding the governors of sanctuary states. "Either you help us or get the hell out of the way, because ICE is going to do their job."

Leaders in several sanctuary cities have said they are going to fight back using all the tools legally available to protect immigrant communities.

[prodigitalson]

8. so, it begins

[littlemissmartypants]

10. ?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143343558

[LudwigPastorius]

11. Texas, hunh?

Will they call it Awwwschwitz or Heckau?