Summary

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered President-elect Donald Trump a 1,402-acre ranch for deportation facilities.

The ranch, near the Rio Grande, is strategically located and has been previously used for agricultural purposes.

Despite claims of immigrants committing crimes at higher rates, data shows they commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S.-born population.

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    8 hours ago

    FUCK EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO TOLD ME TRUMP IS NOT GOING TO PUT PEOPLE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

    FUCK

    ALL

    OF

    YOU.

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    15 hours ago

    Interesting. When the topic is punishment, there are plenty of resources. When the topic is helping people, it’s “who’s footing the bill for that?!” I never saw a headline about a 1400 acre ranch being offered up to house people in poverty, but it gets offered up to imprison people with the “wrong” names and skin color. And they have the audacity to parade out “America first!” as a slogan to prioritize helping Americans before worrying about solving problems around the world.

    Punishing people for allegedly coming here illegally will do nothing to help me. Them allegedly having come here illegally never hurt me. Help people who have been unhoused or addicted to harmful substances or traumatized by abuse to get to a place where that can be productive in our society. That would obviously help them, and then they would be able to help their communities. It’s complicated and it’s difficult, but it’s work worth doing. I’m tired of lazy politicians and leaders looking for quick and easy solutions to fabricated problems so they can maximize the number of boxes that get checked. And that’s a generous read on it. The reality is that they’re greedy whores accepting money and power in exchange for punishing certain people while rewarding certain companies.

    Republican politicians don’t give a flying fuck about you and yours.

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      11 hours ago

      All this whining about Ukraine aid but they’ll immediately blow 10x that amount to use the military to round up civilians

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      Don’t worry RFK said he’s going to send people on adderall and mental health drugs to a cozy summer camp. And Trump has previously blamed immigrants for the homeless problem, so obviously all he needs to do is go through the homeless camps and deport anyone without documentation.

      See? How dare you say they don’t have plans to place Billionaires Americans first!

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      I dont think they dont care about helping or hurting people, theyll do anything that results in power or money.

      They see an opportunity here for a massive amount of exploitable slave labor, similar to prisons.

      This is an investment, not an expense.

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    Strange that Texas, which wants a large population of people deported, would also be the first to choose to “open it’s doors” and say “bring them all here”

    They offer land freely in their backyard to build what essentially could turn into the equivalent of a slum or ghetto.

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    I’m sure this totally unprecedented plan is nothing to worry about. It’s not as though history is replete with similar plans that went awry.

    I’m sure that, once concentrated into this one location, the people being deported will be safe and sound and free of disease and well-fed. And when no country agrees to take them in, I’m sure they’ll just continue to be well-cared for in the encampment and there won’t be any problem and certainly there won’t be any spurious stories of riots or uprisings that need to be put down and which sadly result in the killing of pretty much all of the immigrants being held there. It will be fine. This is all fine and very, very normal.

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    14 hours ago

    If any state was gonna offer up a huge patch of land for concentration camps, it would have to be texas.

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    If you were to see a article that said Texas is offering land to build a affordable housing neighbourhood, people would probably loose their shit in the USA.

    Trouble is the plan is to send full families to these camps. These individuals will be waiting here a long time without the agility to freely leave.

    Unless they plan to split women, men, and children apart. That means these camps will need to be built like walled neighbourhoods with schools for the kids while they wait. Housing with AC and heating, electricity, plumbing, fire protection. Streets to get around inside the complex, stores or shops.