Officials in Texas have offered President-elect Trump a 1,400-acre ranch for his mass deportation plan. Dawn Buckingham, land commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, said in a letter to

The property, which Texas originally purchased last month, is located in rural Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley.

Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump

The land offer highlights the divide between states and local governments on supporting or resisting Trump's mass deportation plans.

After offering the Trump administration land for "deportation facilities," other parts of Texas near the border could be offered up, too, an official says.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton failed in every one of his attempts to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to halt President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. But the Texas Republican’s repeated losses might have actually helped clear the way for President-elect Donald Trump to roll out an immigration crackdown that includes mass deportations,