Texas could bus migrants directly to ICE for deportation instead of sanctuary cities under proposed plan

Fox News Digital has reached out to Abbott's office and ICE. 

"We are always going to be involved in border security so long as we're a border state," a Texas government source told the newspaper. "We spent a lot of taxpayer money to have the level of deterrent that we have on the border, and we can't just walk away."

Abbott has been especially aggressive in combating illegal immigration, bussing migrants to blue cities in an effort to bring attention to the border crisis. Under the proposed plan, buses chartered by Texas from border cities will be taken to federal detention centers to help ICE agents process migrants quickly, the Post reported.

Officials have also offered land to the incoming Trump administration to build deportation centers to hold illegal immigrant criminals.

"My office has identified several of our properties and is standing by ready to make this happen on Day One of the Trump presidency," Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said during a visit to the border Tuesday.

On Sunday, troopers encountered an unaccompanied 2-year-old girl from El Salvador holding a piece of paper with a phone number and her name. She told authorities that her parents were also in the U.S. 

He noted that the "reality is that many children are exploited & trafficked, never to be heard from again."