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Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres the office purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to use for a mass deportation operation, according to a Tuesday letter to the president-elect.

Buckingham said she is offering the land “to be used for the construction of deportation facilities.”

“My office is fully prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the United States Border Patrol to allow for the construction of a facility to process, detain and coordinate the largest deportation of violent refugees. criminals in the history of the country,” Buckingham wrote.

The move shows that despite the promise by the governors of the border states of California and Arizona not to support the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans, the new administration will have allies in Republican-led states.

Buckingham said she “100% agrees” with the new administration’s promise to deport criminals in an interview with Fox News, which first reported the news.

The parcel is located in Starr County, approximately 35 miles west of McAllen, Texas. The Texas General Land Office purchased it from a farmer in October to facilitate Texas’ efforts to build a wall.

“It’s mostly farmland, so it’s flat and easy to build on,” Buckingham told Fox News. “We can easily put a detention center there – a place where we can get these criminals out of our country.”

-Armando García of ABC News