Anything we can do to help': This Texas county is poised to play a key role in deportations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : In November, Starr County supported Trump over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris by 55.6% to 40.2%, the first time since 1892 the county has voted Republican in a presidential election.
57% : In a joint statement issued last month by the Republican Governors Association, 26 of the 27 members (all except Vermont Gov. Phil Scott) declared that they "stand ready to utilize every tool at our disposal -- whether through state law enforcement or the National Guard -- to support President Trump in this vital mission."
51% : Buckingham, a physician and former state senator whose agency oversees 13 million acres of state land, said she learned of the availability of the border tract from another state agency.
50% : Immigration and Customs Enforcement already operates at least 20 detention centers in Texas, and Buckingham says she is standing by to provide still more resources from her immense reservoir of state-owned land, including a potential site in the El Paso region.
49% : As Trump moves closer to reclaiming residency at the White House on Jan. 20, the vast Texas acreage at the edge of the Rio Grande promises to become a centerpiece of the get-tough immigration policies he plans to unfurl under recently named "border czar" Tom Homan. Republican governors from across the country have expressed their eagerness to help Trump's deportation efforts.
41% : "And then when Trump won, we figured they just may need some help with all the violent criminals for their processing, to get them off our soil.
32% : " Next came her letters to Trump and Homan offering federal access to the land "to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation's history.

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