Starr County, Texas, resident Bernardo Garcia, 89, looks across the highway toward a border wall rising on thousands of acres of land owned by the state. Texas officials have offered the land to the incoming Trump administration for a migrant deportation center. (David Montgomery/Stateline)
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — The letter to President-elect Donald Trump, sent to his Mar-a-Lago Club estate in Florida just two weeks after his resounding victory in the Nov. 5 election, came straight to the point.
“Subject: Texas offering 1,400 acres of land adjacent to the Texas-Mexico Border for construction of deportation facilities,” read the opening line of Texas Land Commissioner Dr. Dawn Buckingham’s eye-grabbing missive to the incoming president…