Under gray skies with patriotic music blaring in the background, construction crews on Tuesday put up a border wall on land the state recently bought and offered to the incoming Trump administration to use for deportation facilities.

Texas unveiled its newly acquired border ranch – offered as the site of detention facilities to help the Trump administration with proposed mass deportations — and Texas Land Commissioner Dawn

A 1,400-acre Rio Grande ranch purchase marks Texas’ latest step in border wall expansion, with a new mile-long section underway in the coming weeks.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham talks about a new stretch of border wall that will be built in Starr County, Texas. The property's owner had previously refused to allow a border wall to be built on it.

Texas land commissioner shows off border wall progress in bid to stop migrants Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham invites the media to witness border wall construction on a 1,400 acre ranch as a site offered to the incoming Trump administration for detention centers.