Starr County, Texas, voted predominantly Republican for the first time in a century. Now, it's central to President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plans.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said the state’s recently purchased 1,400-acre ranch could be used as a deportation hub.

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.