A 1,402-acre ranch in Texas may become ground zero for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, a Republican, spearheaded purchase of the ranch, which is located along the border with Mexico in Starr County between Laredo and McAllen, Texas.
Now, Buckingham says, Texas may lease the land to the federal government as a site to process illegal aliens for deportation. She figures President-elect Donald Trump may need it.
“We just thought we’d write a letter to [Trump] and say, … if we can help, we have this property,” she says.
Deportations of illegal aliens, especially criminal illegal aliens, was a pillar of Trump’s presidential campaign, and Buckingham says she and other leaders in Texas recognize that the incoming Trump administration will “probably need a facility to … relieve the strain on the local…
