This, and Texas building its own border wall, is the 21st century Fort Sumter moment.
Good, it’s overdue.
More than we can know right now BUT this could be a very smart play.
Start building the rest of the wall with a vengeance.
Feds demand the work is to be stopped.
Abbott immediately and very publicly announces he will NOT stop finishing the wall and also announces additional crews are being added to speed up the process.
Have DPS and Texas Rangers ready to move and arrest any Feds showing up at the border in an attempt to stop the work.
Contract with professional private videographers to embed with DPS and Texas Rangers to document the arrests and preserve that documentation. This makes the documentation the property of the State of Texas
Hold the Feds, get them arraigned and set court dates before their release.
Hold the documentation and get the Feds to trial in the summer of 2022.
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There is actually a very serious secession movement progressing in Texas now. I hope we can learn to flex the tenth amendment powers, but if that doesnt work, then secession may be the last resort.