From Fox News: The state of Texas has taken another major step in its efforts to build a wall at its border with Mexico, acquiring a 1,400 acre ranch along the Rio Grande in a key area that officials say has seen human trafficking, as well as weapons and drug smuggling.
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has acquired the ranch in Starr County, in Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Sector, which saw some of the highest levels of migrant traffic. The state will now use that land to build additional border wall.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced in 2021 funding for a state project to continue construction of a wall after the Biden administration abruptly ended the Trump-era project. Abbott has also built a floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande. His administration has linked the barriers, and a broader effort by the state, to a drop in apprehensions.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham told Fox News Digital that the Texas Facilities Commission, responsible for building the wall, requested the property. It now means that the GLO owns two pieces of land on the border in Starr Country encompassing more than 4,000 acres.
Buckingham explained that the owner of the property was “not only blocking the border wall, but she is blocking law enforcement’s access to that property.”
“And to really get complete operational control of the border, we really need to control this piece of ground. So we made her an offer. We found a way to purchase her ranch from her,” Buckingham said.
Construction of the wall on the newly-acquired property is expected to begin soon, and the state of Texas has already moved bulldozers out onto the property.
Buckingham was recently interviewed by RSBN. She discusses the land purchases at about the 6-minute mark. Watch below:
Thank you @RSBNetwork for allowing me to talk about the @TXGLO and how we are the tip of the spear for the biggest battles facing Texas! pic.twitter.com/zFr36gwHPg
— Dawn Buckingham (@DrBuckinghamTX) October 27, 2024
‘Shut it down’: Red state makes massive land buy to ramp up border wall efforts amid migrant surge https://t.co/lRE9VWSKb6
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) October 28, 2024
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