Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham pledged to support "the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation's history."

Summary

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered President-elect Donald Trump a 1,402-acre ranch for deportation facilities.

The ranch, near the Rio Grande, is strategically located and has been previously used for agricultural purposes.

Despite claims of immigrants committing crimes at higher rates, data shows they commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S.-born population.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
    23·
    5 days ago

    Its Texas. They just have to leave it open during the winter. Or the fall. Or the summer. Or probably the spring in a year or two.

    Climate change and the inevitable week long power outages because of a self “managed” grid is more than enough to cause mass deaths.

    • Tower@lemm.ee
      1·
      5 days ago

      McAllen is only 65mi from the ocean; a hurricane would be horrific. It’s not like Texas gets hit by hurricanes a lot, right? Right?