EXCLUSIVE — The state of Texas strongly urged the Biden administration not to move forward with plans to build another massive processing facility along the U.S.-Mexico border, calling the latest undertaking “an expensive Band-Aid on a gunshot wound.”

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham blasted Customs and Border Protection over its plan to build a facility in Webb County’s border city of Laredo, Texas, where the federal government has proposed housing 500 illegal immigrants.

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