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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Erum Salam

Texas offers thousands of acres to Trump for ‘deportation facilities’

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Deputy Ruben Salinas, lower right, of the Hidlago county constable department, escorts a group of 16 Guatemalans to border patrol officials after they crossed the Rio Grande near Anzalduas Park outside McAllen, Texas. Photograph: Michael Robinson Chavez/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

The state of Texas has offered thousands of acres of land to Donald Trump “to construct deportation facilities”.

The Texas land commissioner, Dawn Buckingham, wrote in a letter to Trump that her “office is fully prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the US 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”.

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