Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is throwing the state’s vast public lands behind President-elect Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said she has offered a 1,400-acre ranch on the Texas-Mexico border and intends to lease it to the Trump administration for its mass deportation plan. Buckingham joined NewNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill” Tuesday,

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Sheriffs along the U.S.-Mexico border often deal with illegal immigrants but say they need more federal resources.

Texas on Tuesday offered up more land to the incoming Trump administration to build deportation facilities — naming the project after a 12-year-old girl allegedly raped and murdered by two illegal migrants.

As Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham made her announcement to offer more state land to the federal government, the state was putting up new sections of a border wall on its new property. At another event along the southern border,

Incoming border czar Tom Homan says he is already making plans on what to do with a chunk of land offered to the incoming administration by Texas.