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.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said a facility built on this farmland recently bought by Texas will be the final stop for processing migrants before deportation.

She also promised more Texas land for mass deportation: “The new project that the General Land Office is going to bargain 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.”