STARR COUNTY, Texas ( Border Report ) — A Texas agency has bought a ranch on the border in rural Starr County where the state plans to build more border wall.
The Texas General Land Office on Tuesday announced it purchased a 1,400-acre ranch where corn and other crops were being grown and the state will build a 1.5-mile new segment of border wall on the property.
The land is near where Texas built its first, 1.7-mile segment of state-funded border wall in 2022 as part of the state’s Operation Lone Star border security initiative.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham told Border Report on Tuesday that the agency had been trying to acquire the land for a while because of reports that the area is notorious for sexual assaults of migrant women and children by Mexican drug cartel and human trafficking organizations.