Texas offers even more land to Trump to build migrant deportation centers: Were taking back our peace
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.Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, standing along a portion of the state’s border wall, said her office is expanding its earlier offer by adding more identified land that could be used by the Trump White House “on Day One” to hold violent criminal illegal migrants before they are deported from the US.Buckingham said the project has been named the “Jocelyn initiative” to honor the life of preteen Jocelyn Nungaray, who was allegedly raped and murdered by two illegal migrants and suspected Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members released into the US earlier this year.“The new project that the general land office is gonna embark on that I have created is the Jocelyn initiative, in which we will locate appropriate land under my jurisdiction to lease for the construction of violent criminal deportation facilities,” Buckingham said — speaking next to Jocelyn’s mom Alexis and grandmother Jackie.“My office has identified several of our properties and is standing by ready to make this happen on Day One of the Trump presidency,” the Texas official said.“We are going to do everything in our power to ensure no other parent has to feel the pain that Alexis and Jaclyn are feeling right now.”Jocelyn’s grandmother said the family supports the effort.“We’re taking back power, we’re taking back our peace, and we’re taking back hope so that no other families have to go through what our families go through cause this should’ve never happened,” she said.“Those monsters should’ve never been here,” she said of her granddaughter’s accused killers.Buckingham recently offered the Trump team a1,400-acre border ranch to help with its mass-deportation effort.
Buckingham told The Post she made the additional offer because the Lone Star St...