Texas More than 500 hectares of land are offered next to border with mexico so that the government of the elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, can use him as a great detention center for illegal migrants for his mass deportation plan.

In the letter, the Texas General Land Office said it is “fully committed” to reaching an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to allow the construction of facilities to “process, detain and coordinate” deportations on the 567-hectare site. in Starr County, south Texas.

The site, crossed by the Rio Grande River, the natural border between the United States and Mexico, was acquired by Texas in late October to “strengthen border security and construct” several more kilometers of wall, according to a statement announcing the purchase.

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The land is used to grow onions, canola, sunflowers, grain, corn, cotton and soybeans.

The land is currently used by the farm to grow crops such as onions, canola, sunflowers, grain, corn, cotton and soybeans, and the Texas Land Office has not specified what will happen to that production once it is transferred to the federal government.

According to US media reports, representatives of the future Trump administration are already considering various sites and contacting private companies in the prison industry in order to expand government capacity to detain migrants. NBC News.

Trump has vowed to carry out the largest “mass deportation” in US history, targeting more than 11 million migrants without legal status who have been living in the country, in many cases for decades. (EFE)

A caravan of migrants leaves southern Mexico with the aim of reaching the US before Trump.

Thousands of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, left Mexico’s southern border this Wednesday with the goal of reaching the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s new presidency, which announced mass deportations.

Spokesman and spokesman for what could be the last caravan under the Joe Biden administration, Douglas Brian Velasquez, told the National Guard that there are about 5 thousand people in this group of illegal immigrants who will have Huehuetan as a resting point, about 26 kilometers away. from Tapachula.

The contingent, made up of people from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, set off early in the morning in this new caravan of people aiming to arrive before Trump’s inauguration on January 20. (EFE)