“We are taking back our peace”

Texas on Tuesday offered the new Trump administration more land to build deportation facilities – naming the project after a 12-year-old girl allegedly raped and murdered by two undocumented migrants.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, standing along part of the state’s border wall, said from her office is developing its earlier offer by adding more identified sites that the Trump White House could “day one” detain violent undocumented migrants before they are deported from the US.

Buckingham said the project was named the “Jocelyn Initiative” to honor the life of teenager Jocelyn Nungaray, who was allegedly raped and murdered by two undocumented migrants and suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua released to the U.S. earlier this year.

“A new project I have prepared for the Chief Land Office is the Jocelyn Initiative, where we will locate suitable land under my jurisdiction and lease it to build facilities to deport violent criminals,” Buckingham said, speaking alongside Jocelyn’s mother Alexis and grandmother Jackie.

“My office has identified several of our properties and is ready to make this happen on Day 1 of the Trump presidency,” the Texas official said.

“We will do everything we can to make sure no other parent has to feel the pain Alexis and Jaclyn are feeling right now.”

Grandma Jocelyn said the family supports the effort.

“We are taking back power, we are taking back our peace and we are taking back hope so that no other families have to go through what our families are going through because something like this should never happen,” she said.

“These monsters should never have been here,” she said of her granddaughter’s accused killers.

Buckingham recently offered the Trump team a 1,400-acre border ranch to help with mass deportations.

Buckingham told The Post she made the additional offer because the Lone Star State is “looking for a good partner” in ensuring “that these violent criminals who are harming our sons and daughters, who are here illegally, leave our land.”

Trump’s chosen “border czar,” Tom Homan, recently told Fox News host Laura Ingraham the Trump administration will “definitely” use the land Texas promised.

Homan said the new administration would first deport illegal criminal migrants. He recently told The Post that the effort would be successful US military for ‘non-enforcement’ duties. related to the plan.

“The more non-law enforcement work (the Department of Defense) can do, it puts more law enforcement officers on the streets looking for criminals,” Homan said.

in September Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told The Post his state has already spent an impressive $10 billion fighting to secure the border with Mexico under the Biden administration.

During Tuesday’s statement, Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy said he would make every effort to get the feds to reimburse these ongoing expenses.