“President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.”
It’d be easier to drown Texas. They want to secede? No more trading with states. Need a treaty with the US. They could be made into Cuba. No one would buy their oil if it meant losing access to trading with the US.
Then make the borders one way: allow immigration from Texas but deny travel there for US citizens. It would bleed people as everyone fled.
Texas wouldn’t last a year.
Sanctions would also allow the US to take away all the Texan politicians’ money stored in US bank accounts. That alone would make them trip over each other to get back in.
I doubt there would be any companies that own the refineries that would stay in TX at the risk of losing all the business they do in the rest of the US. TX would be a dystopian nightmare to live in if they did leave the US. No national company is going to stay, all the military bases and defense industry would be gone, no products will be delivered from other states for as long as it would take to figure out passports and immigration back into the US, the airports would no longer have FAA oversight, and a million of other small things that get taken for granted in everyday life would be gone. Companies that are US based have a responsibility to work in their shareholders interest and I can’t see any rational shareholders wanting to leave the entire US market for the shithole TX market.
Edit: I replied to the wrong comment but it kind of fits so I’ll leave it.
You don’t need to drown Texas; there are a dozen military bases ready to crush any insurrection just in that state. If Greg tries anything the Texas National Guard will rapidly become an ex-organization.