RIO GRANDE CITY — 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 Buckingham said Tuesday the state is looking to identify additional land to aid the federal effort.

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 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.