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EXCLUSIVE: Texas is offering the incoming Trump administration a tract of more than 1,400 acres on which to stage its mass deportation operation when it enters office in January, as the transition team begins to make preparations for the ambitious project.Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has written to President-elect Donald Trump offering him the land in Starr County, which the state purchased from a ranch owner in October. The 1,402 acres are in the Rio Grande Valley sector near the border.Her letter to Trump, obtained by Fox News Digital, says her office is “fully prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the United States Border Patrol to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.”‘SHUT IT DOWN’: RED STATE MAKES MASSIVE LAND BUY TO RAMP UP BORDER WALL EFFORTS AMID MIGRANT SURGE”What I care about is that we have safe communities, and there is no doubt that we are losing too many of our children to these violent criminals that are coming across the border,” Buckingham told Fox News Digital in an interview on Tuesday. “I am 100% on board with the Trump administration’s pledge to get these criminals out of our country, and we are more than happy to offer our resources to facilitate those deportations of these violent criminals.”The Texas General Land Office purchased the land in October to facilitate the construction of additional border wall, a project that the Biden administration stopped. The area, which was a ranch before Texas bought it, had seen drug smuggling and human trafficking, officials said.BATTLEGROUND STATE RANCHER ‘OUTRAGED’ BY BIDEN STOPPING WALL CONSTRUCTION AS MIGRANTS POUR INTO USIn light of Trump’s election victory this month, Buckingham said she was brainstorming with her team and decided to make the offer to the incoming administration.”Right now, it’s essentially farmland, so it’s flat, it’s easy to build on. We could very easily put a detention center on there, a holding place as we get these criminals out of our country,” she said. “It’s accessible to international airports as well as a major crossing over the river. And so we’re just happy to get help, do anything we can to get these violent criminals off of our soil.”‘SANCTUARY’ CITY MAYOR VOWS SHE WILL DEFY TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION PUSH: ‘CAUSING WIDESPREAD FEAR’Trump repeatedly promised throughout his 2024 presidential campaign to launch a historic mass deportation operation. In the days since the election, those plans have been put into motion, with officials looking at where they could build additional detention space.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF THE BORDER SECURITY CRISISBuckingham said the election proves that Trump’s approach to border security and illegal immigration is the one backed by the American people and that the Biden administration’s approach had been rejected.”This election was a resounding referendum on the fact that Americans want safe communities. We want people to immigrate legally and legally only and that the administration’s policies over the last four years have failed every American citizen,” she said.The Trump plan is likely to face opposition in other states, including Arizona, Illinois and Massachusetts, where governors have indicated they will oppose deportation efforts by the Trump administration. But that is unlikely to stop the incoming administration from conducting its operation.
 
Fox News’ Emma Woodhead contributed to this report.



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President-elect Trump announced on Tuesday that he will nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator in January.”America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again,” Trump said in a statement. “He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades.””Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake,” the statement added. “Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country’s budget.”TRUMP APPOINTS TULSI GABBARD AS DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: ‘FEARLESS SPIRIT’This breaking news story is still developing. Check back with us for updates.



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Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon slammed the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday for doxxing several of his website’s anonymous writers, in a post that went viral on X.The Babylon Bee is a Christian conservative-leaning satire site that produces humorous fake news stories. Dillon revealed several of the writers for its non-satirical sister site – called “Not the Bee” because it features real news stories that seem too outlandish to be true – were about to have their identities exposed by the SPLC.”The discredited, scandal-ridden smear factory known as the SPLC is about to publish a hit piece doxxing several of our ‘Not the Bee’ writers who wished to remain anonymous so they could speak freely, without fear,” Dillon announced.”The SPLC extracted sensitive information from our site, then used that information to contact our writers directly. I’ve included a screenshot of one of these emails below,” his post continued.SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER SLASHES 60 JOBS WHILE UNION SAYS IT STASHED CASHThe SPLC, a powerful progressive civil rights group that the FBI has cited as a resource and is frequently quoted in the media, has labeled prominent conservative organizations and parental rights groups, such as the Family Research Council (FRC) and Moms for Liberty, as “extremists,” alongside groups like the Ku Klux Klan.The SPLC posted its story on Tuesday about the Babylon Bee, headlined “Inside The Beehive” and part of its “HateWatch” section. It boasted of revealing the identities of 14 of Not The Bee’s pseudonymous writers, and it accused The Babylon Bee of “amplifying far-right rhetoric and disinformation,” even while noting it was a satire site in the same vein of The Onion.Not The Bee stories, the SPLC wrote, “feature strongly anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant themes,” which was presumably why the site sought to reveal its content creators.In the attached email, SPLC investigative journalist Creede Newton alerts “Not the Bee” staff writer, who posts under a pseudonym, that the SPLC has discovered their identity, workplace and city location, as well as other writing this person has done online. The SPLC journalist warned that they plan to publish a story about this writer’s online comments on the transgender issue.SPLC DIRECTOR WHO PLACED PARENTS’ RIGHTS GROUP ON ‘HATE MAP’ MET WITH BIDEN COUNTERTERROR OFFICIAL: REPORTThe e-mail shared by Dillon reads, “‘Planet Moron’ has maintained a separate web presence as a blogger for nearly 20 years, but since 2020 has written over 600 articles for Not the Bee. Exposed author information on Not the Bee’s source corde [sic] indicates that ‘Planet Moron’ [is] you, [redacted], a [redacted] instructor from [redacted]. ‘Planet Moron’ is a prolific writer on culture-war issues. One article mocks transgender children as ‘mentally ill tween[s]’ who are ‘the economic lifeblood of the multi-billion-dollar trans industry.’ Do you wish to comment?” The article by Newton and Megan Squire went on to detail how it exposed the authors through the site’s source code.Dillon said earlier that the SPLC did what they did because they were activists and “vindictive bullies who’ve admitted their aim is to ‘completely destroy’ individuals and organizations they disagree with by making them pay a steep price for speaking freely.”BABYLON BEE FIGHTS FOR FREE SPEECH ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPREME COURTDan Dillon and Adam Ford, the co-founders of Not the Bee, also published statements defending their website and writers, while slamming the SPLC for their attempt to “smear” and “intimidate” their writers.”They are angry, bitter, resentful hacks that feel like their ability to pummel people into worldview submission is slipping away,” Dan Dillon wrote.Joel Abbott, editor-in-chief of Not the Bee, also wrote, “Not the Bee is a project of love, not of hate,” and taunted the group to “dox us if you dare.”The SPLC has come under fire from conservative critics, who’ve accused the SPLC of smearing non-violent groups who hold traditional beliefs with the “hate group” label.The group also faced controversy In 2012 when a gunman, who said he was inspired by the SPLC’s “hate map,” attempted to conduct a mass shooting at the FRC building in Washington, D.C., but was thwarted by a building manager.Dillon and the SPLC did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.



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President-elect Donald Trump’s first Department of Education (DOE) secretary, Betsy DeVos, has been floated as one of the potential candidates for the position again. However, if she does not get the job, DeVos has some ideas about who would be a good fit to carry the mantle Trump started in 2017.”There’s a whole host of Republican governors who have led on issues around at K-12 education, in particular, and in other cases, higher education,” DeVos told Fox News Digital in an interview.”They have great backgrounds and could do a great, great job in carrying out the policies of a second Trump administration. Which I believe, as President Trump has said, should definitely include every effort to depower the federal agency and turn control and power back over to states, local, districts and parents.”BETSY DEVOS JOINS TRUMP’S CALL TO ‘DISBAND’ THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND ‘RE-EMPOWER’ FAMILIESGOP-dominated legislatures in Florida, Iowa, Arkansas and elsewhere passed bills significantly expanding school vouchers last year. On the campaign trail, Trump said one of the first things he’ll do is “closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education work it needs back to the states.”DeVos said the budget and investments in education would not change, but through “block granting.””Let’s talk about eliminating the bureaucracy, not the budget, and ways in which that can be done,” DeVos said. “Very simply, block granting the money back to the states, so that it goes to states and ideally directly it to families who need it most.”TRUMP’S FORMER EDUCATION SECRETARY SAYS SHE IS ‘VERY OPEN’ TO DISCUSSION ABOUT RETURNING TO PREVIOUS POSTDuring Trump’s first term, DeVos strongly advocated for school choice policies and expanding school voucher programs and tax credit scholarships to allow public funding to be used for private and religious school tuition.She also rescinded federal guidance on the use of bathrooms by transgender students in schools, arguing it should be a state and local decision. DeVos scaled back federal oversight and programs in K-12 education, including the scope of civil rights investigations conducted by the DOE.DEM REP RUBEN GALLEGO BEATS KARI LAKE IN BATTLE FOR ARIZONA SENATE SEAT”This is unfinished business from the first term, when we introduced with President Trump’s support and urged a freedom, a tax credit freedom bill to establish a pool of funds that individuals could designate money to at the federal level, but it would go alongside what states are already doing,” DeVos said. “Many states have passed education freedom policies to support families making those choices in that state, and other states have not yet done that, but this would allow for kids in every state through scholarship granting organizations to experience more education, freedom and choices and options, and that is a really important piece that should be addressed. And I believe this new Congress is ready to jump into it,” she added.On the contrary, President Biden increased funding for public schools, particularly in low-income areas, through the American Rescue Plan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout his presidency, Biden pushed for college student debt relief, despite being blocked by the Supreme Court.Biden’s Education Department is trying to push through a new federal rule in the final weeks before President-elect Trump takes over to provide additional student loan forgiveness for 8 million borrowers who face financial hardships. If finalized, the new rule would authorize student debt forgiveness on a one-time basis for people who the department considers to have at least an 80% chance of defaulting on loans based on a “predictive assessment using existing borrower data.”The rule would also allow people, including potential “future borrowers,” to apply for relief that will be awarded based on “a holistic assessment of the borrower’s hardship.””There is every argument for if the taxpayers are going to be funding student lending, there better be ways to oversee it and actually do it effectively and efficiently,” DeVos said. “And it has not been happening. It is a huge mess, and it needs to be rethought and re-examined, and frankly, the private sector, private sector lending needs to come back into it and be an option.”Fox News Digital’s Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.



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The NBA has come under criticism again over its international partnerships after a report from Human Rights Watch accused the league of potentially taking part in “sportswashing” because of its budding relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).  The report published Tuesday focused on the league’s two preseason games held in Abu Dhabi in October and this year’s in-season tournament, renamed the Emirates NBA Cup following the league’s multiyear global marketing partnership with the airline announced in February. The report accused the UAE of using its new platform as a “part of the Emirati government’s efforts to distract from the many human rights violations it is committing at home and abroad,” adding that the league risks contributing to those efforts over its failure to speak out on those violations.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”The  NBA should be aware that the UAE hosts high profile sporting, entertainment, and cultural events to promote a public image of openness and tolerance at odds with the government’s rampant systemic human rights violations,” the report read.”The NBA has a responsibility under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to respect human rights throughout all its operations. This includes adopting specific policies and conducting due diligence to identify risks of contributing to human rights harms, including burnishing the image of human rights-abusing states.” TRUMP CAMPAIGN BLASTS WARRIORS’ STEVE KERR FOR NEED TO ‘SPEAK UP’ AT DNC DESPITE PREVIOUS SILENCE ON CHINAThe NBA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.For the third straight season, the NBA held two preseason games featuring the reigning champion Boston Celtics and the 2023 champion Denver Nuggets in Abu Dhabi in early October. This was a part of the 2021 multiyear partnership signed with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi).In February, the league also announced Emirates as the Official Global Airline Partner of the NBA and the first-ever referee jersey patch partner of the NBA.This new relationship followed the fallout of 2019 when Chinese state television decided not to air two NBA exhibition games in response to the league’s reaction to comments made by former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.According to a report from ESPN, that blackout went on for 18 months and more than 10 Chinese sponsors paused or withdrew from their deals. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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