Your sources are in different places than mine or are likely reluctant to say what is really going on. From what I see the only option is the brute force one which will back the AG and put this to bed. This is serious business and they have all the pieces in place. Would not want to be a resistor right now. At this point they don’t care if we look Russian or Chinese in appearance. It’s the substance and issues at hand that matters. Trump has already started bandying about with the idea of using the Insurrection Act to deal with illegal immigrants and can easily transition to any mission that is required.
I don’t think he’ll do that.