AUSTIN – Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced today that the Texas General Land Office (GLO) has obtained a 1,402-acre ranch along the Rio Grande in Starr County, near the Texas-Mexico border. This property’s extensive river frontage is intended to support border security efforts by enabling the construction of border walls.
“The General Land Office works for the people of Texas, and our agency will take matters into our own hands by partnering with the State of Texas to secure this section of Starr County with a fortified 1.5-mile wall,” said Commissioner Buckingham.
The ranch currently operates as a productive farm, yielding a variety of crops including onions, canola, sunflowers, grain sorghum, corn, cotton, and soybeans.
Starr County is part of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector.