Texas on Tuesday expanded on an earlier offer to provide President-elect Donald Trump with land to support a wide-ranging deportation plan.
Last week, Texas Land Secretary Dawn Buckingham sent a letter to President Trump informing him that he would like to offer his administration 1,400 acres of land near the Mexican border in Starr County, Texas. Processing, detaining, and coordinating the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation's history. ”
“My office has identified several of our properties and we are ready to make this happen on the first day of President Trump's inauguration.”
Buckingham wrote to her: letter“I am committed to using all available means to ensure the complete operational security of our borders.”
Trump administration border czar Tom Homan said his administration would “absolutely use” the land.
Buckingham said Tuesday. new york post She plans to further expand her land offering. He said the plan would be called the “Jocelyn Initiative,” which is based on the story of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old Houston girl who was brutally raped and murdered by two Venezuelans with suspected ties to Torren de Aragua. It was named in honor of.
“A new project that the Land Directorate that I founded is embarking on is the Jocelyn Initiative, which will find suitable land under my jurisdiction and lease it for the construction of a violent offender deportation facility.” Buckingham said.
Nungarai's family, which has supported President Trump and his mass deportation plan, also supports Texas' plan to give the land to the federal government.
The child's grandmother said, “We are taking back power, we are restoring peace, we are restoring hope, so no other family has to go through what our family went through.” said. [because] This should never have happened. ”
“Those monsters shouldn't have been here,” she added.
Buckingham told the Post that Texas aims to “be a good partner” with the Trump administration and “take the violent criminals who are harming our sons and daughters who are in the country illegally from our side.” “We aim to move them away from the land,” he said.
She said she was determined to “do everything in my power to prevent other parents from feeling the pain” that Nungarai's family had gone through.
“My office has identified several of our properties and is poised to make this happen on the first day of President Trump's inauguration,” Buckingham declared.
Homan said. fox news On Tuesday, it was revealed that he had met with Republican Governor Greg Abbott in Texas.
“We're not waiting until January 20th. We're already planning what we're going to do to lock down Texas,” Homan said. “At the end of the day, it's about saving lives.”
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