If a free Texas were to stop all government entitlements, the illegals and freeloaders would all go elsewhere.
I believe it is our honor bound duty to give our whole effort to Mark Levin's proposal for a Convention of the States (Article V), to propose amendments to curtail the power of the federal government. We must try that as an effort to bring the country back within its original constitutional boundaries. If we don't, we are condemning the country to either tyranny or war.
If that case, then secession of conservative states may be the only option.
Either way, our time is very short.