SB 4 is the latest in a long line of policy failures made in service to Operation Lone Star, Texas’s multibillion-dollar border scheme. Texas has seized a public park from local officials in Eagle Pass, staged a “war zone” backdrop for social media videos along the river banks using concertina wire and a heavy police and military presence, and blocked federal Border Patrol agents from entering the park, setting off a standoff with the federal government that has continued despite a Supreme Court order reinstating federal officials’ access to the border.