Texas is well-prepared to implement President-elect Donald Trump's immigration and border enforcement plans, having built legal and physical infrastructure for mass deportation efforts. Recently, the state offered federal authorities 1,400 acres for immigrant detention facilities.
Perhaps no other state is more prepared – or eager – to carry out President-elect Donald Trump ’s immigration and border enforcement plans than Texas .
The governor’s office also set up three funds to collect donations for border transportation, the border wall and border security, and named a border czar to advise him on this issue directly. Clint McDonald, a retired sheriff who now directs the Texas and Southwestern Border Coalition, said most sheriffs along the border are eager to work with the new administration.
When they meet next in January, Texas lawmakers will also likely help Trump by passing new laws that encourage more state and federal cooperation on the border. Still, he’s concerned some local law enforcement departments will ramp up their policing in certain areas where many immigrants live, in which case, non-criminal undocumented immigrants could be arrested.
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