Trump transition officials are exploring the possibility of building immigrant detention facilities on a plot of land recently purchased by the state of Texas.

President-elect Donald Trump has made multiple promises to carry out mass deportations, and he could use Texas’s “Operation Line Star” as a road map for putting his plans into action. Trump’s pick for border czar,

The General Land Office announcements came as Gov. Greg Abbott and Tom Homan, the incoming Trump administration's border czar, visited soldiers and troopers assigned to Operation Lone Star.

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,

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The Trump administration and Texas authorities are contemplating the construction of deportation centres on purchased land alongside the Rio Grande. Discussions with the upcoming Trump administration involve utilising military resources for transporting migrants and developing infrastructure.