(Both images here proudly lifted from A.W. Morgan's VDare article. They can't sue me - their lawyers are (unfortunately) too busy.

Here’s the way I can see it starting, Silent Cal.

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I’m telling you that, were I a Texas National Guardsman watching that, I don’t know what the chances would be that I would raise my rifle and fire at the traitorous Fed. They would not be 0.

That’s how something may get started. The Feds derail State policies that are designed to prevent the evil that the Potomac Regime has been implementing. Some Governor with guts, or maybe a group of brave locals, decides that enough is enough. Then, of course, the FBI or whoever come to the State to arrest said Texans, Floridians, or whomever. Then, State officials have to prevent this by detaining these FBI men at the airport.

What’s next after that?

Writing in the Daily Mail, Tod Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies has reported that officers with Texas’ Department of Public Safety “are locked in a bizarre daily struggle” with the Border Patrol at a pecan farm in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Schematic layout and scenario from VDare/A.W. Morgan:

Biden has done what we thought he might do, almost. His Border Patrol is undermining Governor Greg Abbott’s effort to close the border.

It also wasn’t helpful to Texas that the Urbinas—who leased a long stretch of their riverfront to the Border Patrol at expense to the U.S. taxpayer—dug a walkway ramp down to the river to make the steep bank more accessible.

This is nothing short of an absurd civil war of sorts pitting two American forces, one controlled by Texas and the other by Washington D.C., against each other.

Now, for the really good news. Abbott dispatched state troopers to the farm because it was the scene of a crime:

Texas then bulldozed the river ramp, strung rows of barbed wire across it and planted a large sign that threatens a fine and reads: “You cannot pass here.”

Some illegals are swimming down river to find another entry, but others are swimming back to Mexico:

Privately, because they’re not authorized to speak, some Border Patrol agents tell me they abhor having to escort illegal aliens into the country. But they’re following orders.

One young, dripping wet Venezuelan man confirmed it all to me.

“They [Texas Department of Public Safety officers] won’t let us pass,” he says.

So, his group will walk several hundred yards upriver to a spot where they heard the green uniformed “American immigracion” officers might be found.

Either way, in one sense, Biden has gone to war against Texas.

Abbott must respond in kind. Texas DPS officers must arrest Border Patrol agents who assist the invaders and/or interfere with efforts to close the border.