Trump and Texas: Plans in Works to Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens

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🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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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 jails to get the proper processing before these people are deported.” Tom Homan, Trump’s incoming border czar, has indicated he is interested in using the 1,402-acre ranch, a popular crossing point for illegal aliens, as the second Trump administration begins a major effort to secure the border and remove criminals who entered the country illegally. Illegal aliens already have crossed the border into America unlawfully. Generally, "criminal illegal aliens" refers to those who also have been convicted of a crime either in America or in another country. Buckingham joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what will change at the border when Trump returns next month.

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1:04.2	I am so pleased to welcome back to the show, Texas Land Commissioner, Don Buckingham,
1:09.7	Commissioner. Thank you so much for taking the time to
1:11.9	come back on the show today. Well, it is my pleasure to be back on with you. Well, it's an exciting time,
1:16.5	and it's certainly an exciting time for Texas, because the American people voted in this election for
1:22.1	secure borders. They made that very clear that they wanted secure borders. Immigration was consistently one of the top
1:29.0	two issues when voters were pulled that was on their minds. And there has been a lot, really for the
1:34.7	past four years, a lot of push in Texas to say, okay, even if the federal government isn't going
1:40.0	to secure the border, we are going to act to secure the border. And Texas has just taken a
1:45.4	significant step in further securing the border by purchasing a 1400-acre ranch. I want to ask you,
1:53.0	explain a little bit about why this ranch was such a strategic piece of property to purchase
1:58.6	when it comes to the fight to secure the U.S. border with Mexico.
2:03.6	Well, so many things to unpack with that question and so much exciting stuff, but we originally purchased the property because it was owned by someone who would not only not allow law enforcement on the property, but of course would not give right away to the border wall, which means that it was leading in the crime statistics for that entire region, lots of human
2:21.5	traffic across it, lots of violent crime happening there.
2:25.1	And so we were asked by the Facilities Commission to acquire the property so that we
2:28.7	could get law enforcement access to the property and get the wall built.
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