Texas Land Commissioner in Starr County for border wall event

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D. along with state leaders are in Rio Grande City for a Border Wall Construction Kick-off Event in Starr County.

According to the Texas General Land Office (GLO) news release, the event is to be held at the newly acquired 1,402-acre ranch along the Rio Grande at Starr County's border with Mexico on Tuesday morning.

The GLO acquired this ranch and most recently made an offer to the incoming Trump Administration to use this land for the construction of mass deportation facilities for criminal illegal immigrants.

The GLO now owns two pieces of land on the border in Starr County encompassing more than 4,000 acres, according to the news release.