How a Texas governor should close the border. There's only one way to do it successfully, and that is by force. We need to tell the feds to shut down the border, or we will. Maybe give them a few days, just enough time to mobilize our National Guard, DPS, State Guard and whatever other forces we can muster. We take our tanks, armored personnel carriers, etc to the border crossing centers, and tell them close it or we will. If they don't--and they surely won't--we seize them by military force and close the border. If we can't cull out...