Texas is offering 1,402 acres (567 hectares) of land along the border with Mexico to the incoming Trump administration to lease as part of a plan for the mass deportation of immigrants, the Texas General Land Office said on Tuesday.

Texas is offering 1,400 acres along the border to the incoming Trump administration to aid its mass deportation efforts.  Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered up the land in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday,

Donald Trump has backed calls for a "national emergency" plan as part of his mass deportation policy. Writing on his Truth Social platform, the President-elect responded to reports that he was considering the move in order to secure the use of military resources in carrying out deportations of foreign criminals who have entered the country illegally.