Sometimes, if you want something done right, you just have to do it yourself. That’s Texas, faced with the lawbreaking refusal of the Biden-Harris Administration to secure the border. As such, they’re buying their own border land to build their own border wall.
The Texas General Land Office has acquired a 1,400-acre ranch along the Rio Grande, which the state will use to build a wall along the Texas-Mexico border.
Earlier this week, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham revealed that the GLO has acquired the ranch in Starr County—a border county 105 miles away from Laredo. The area, located in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Sector, has seen the highest levels of illegal alien crossings.
Buckingham said that the Texas Facilities Commission—tasked with building the border wall—requested the property. With the purchase of the ranch, the GLO now owns two pieces of land, totaling more than 4,000 acres, in Starr County along the border.
“For too long, the federal government has abdicated its job to secure our southern border – endangering Texans by allowing hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal migrants to stream across our porous border. This mass negligence and refusal to enforce the law is downright sinister. As Land Commissioner, tasked with overseeing thirteen million acres of state land, I will not idly stand by and let this dereliction of duty affect the lives of hard-working Texans,” said Buckingham.
This is why I am stepping up and acquiring this 1,402-acre property in the heart of the border crisis. The General Land Office works for the people of Texas, and our agency will take matters into our own hands and partner with the State of Texas to secure this section of Starr County by building a fortified 1.5-mile wall.
That’s a good start, but we’re obviously going to need many more wall segments than that.
Buckingham also revealed that state employees have already been out to the property with bulldozers and she believes construction of the wall will begin soon.
Additionally, Buckingham explained that there have been massive amounts of human trafficking on the property. She said that the acquisition included trees that served as “rape trees”—which are used by human traffickers to display women’s undergarments as trophies after an assault.
“It’s at an area of great impact, it’s in an area where we see lots of people coming across all of the time, not only seeing the people coming across, but seeing those women and children who are abused and victimized. We’re seeing drugs. We’re seeing weapons. We’re seeing all kinds of things coming across this particular part of the border,” explained Buckingham.
“So we think that this barrier, this wall that the Texas Facilities Commission will build, will help to control that traffic and hopefully shut it down.”
Given the huge increase in illegal alien crime and disorder that the Biden-Harris decision to import millions of illegal aliens in to the country has had, Texas has been forced to go to unusual lengths to secure the life and property of it’s citizens against the illegal invasion.
If Trump is elected again and the federal government starts enforcing its constitutional duty to secure the borders, then Texas can once again starting working with the federal government to enforce the law.
Tags: Border Controls, border fence, Dawn Buckingham, Republicans, Texas
Eventually I think every state (every state that’s sane) is going to have to do something like this, either going it alone or pooling their resources with more at-risk states to fight not just immigration, but the whole panoply of leftist policies. Using federal money they receive to do it would be even better…pull what states like CA and NY pull by ignoring SCOTUS or appeals court rulings by changing the wording and tie up the feds over the issue for years.
We are fundamentally two different countries now. States that are sane – like Texas – need to start thinking about what an independent solution to these problems looks like now, regardless of what the political situation at the federal looks like in the foreseeable future.
I skimmed the article but didn’t see a map or anything describing the *shape* of this acreage. 1,400 acres spread along a 0.25 mile deep strip at the border is much better than a 1,400 acre square, with only one side on the border.
When you think about it, the idea that the state should need to buy land in order to secure the border is more than a little bit nuts.
I’d just do one big “public use” condemnation, work out due compensation, and then build the damn wall.
Borders ought to be public property, anyway… Hell, I’d strongly suggest a 1km security zone. A wall to mark the actual physical border and then a series of interdiction features culminating in automated guard towers equipped with remotely operated weapons stations.
And then the Biden admin will sue thru the Federal courts to delay the construction of these border walls. Etch that is stone…
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Lemuel Vargas said:
And then the Biden admin will sue thru the Federal courts to delay the construction of these border walls. Etch that is stone…
It is far past the point where everyone ought to recognize that the Clinton/Obama/Biden administrations represent successive takeovers of our government by people who want to destroy the country. Anyone appointed during these administrations ought to be investigated, and then if appropriate, prosecuted. Preliminary to their execution as traitors, as mandated by the Constitution.
Screw auditing the Fed. I want Congress and the unelected bureaucracy audited.
“It is far past the point where everyone ought to recognize that the Clinton/Obama/Biden administrations represent successive takeovers ..”
I’ve long thought, and said in other forums, that the Federal Government has been in open rebellion against its citizens.
Abbott needs to hand Trump47 a bill for all the $$ Texas has spent doing the Fed’s job. Not the deed to the wall, just the bill for time and materials.
Eric said:
I’ve long thought, and said in other forums, that the Federal Government has been in open rebellion against its citizens.
It’s not so much that the Feds are revolting against the citizenry as it is that the citizens have been asleep at the switch while their government has been mobilized against them. 90% of the people in office today should not be there; the fact that you have creatures like the Clintons and the Obamas, who went into office as paupers, and are now multi-millionaires? And, in plain sight, while nobody pays attention or realizes the implications?
Our own damn fault.
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