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Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres the office purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to use for a mass deportation operation, according to a letter Tuesday to the president-elect.

Buckingham said she is offering the land “to be used to build deportation facilities.”

“My office is fully prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the United States Border Patrol to allow the construction of a facility to process, detain and coordinate the largest deportation of violent criminals. in the nation’s history,” Buckingham wrote.

The move shows that despite the governors of the border states of California and Arizona pledging not to help the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans, the incoming administration will have allies in Republican-led states.

Buckingham said she is “100% on board” with the incoming administration’s pledge to deport criminals in an interview with Fox Newswhich was the first to report the news.

The parcel of land is located in Starr County, about 55 miles west of McAllen, Texas. The Texas General Land Office bought it from a farmer in October to facilitate Texas’ efforts to build a wall.

“It’s essentially farmland, so it’s flat, it’s easy to build on,” Buckingham told Fox News. “We can very easily put a detention center there – a place of detention once we get these criminals out of our country.”

-ABC News’ Armando Garcia