Monday morning in Texas saw a coalition of civil rights groups file a lawsuit to halt SB 4, the law allowing state police to arrest and deport migrants. The ACLU and the Texas Civil Rights Project argue the law is unconstitutional, as immigration remains a federal responsibility.

While the courts debate state power, the Justice Department has simultaneously escalated its own denaturalization push, filing 12 new cases to strip citizenship from those accused of fraud. This is the 'Hollow State' operating with a pincer movement: Texas builds the cage, while the federal government revokes the keys. The result is a population living under a permanent 'Total Behavioral Tax,' where legal status can be liquidated at any moment by a magistrate's order.