# Shelby Park Standoff In January 2024, Texas seized control of Shelby Park, a riverfront city park in Eagle Pass, walling out federal Border Patrol and lining the area with concertina (razor) wire as part of [[Operation Lone Star]]. The move escalated Governor [[Greg Abbott]]'s border campaign into a direct constitutional confrontation with the federal government, with Abbott invoking a state's Article I self-defense powers against what he framed as an "invasion." The Supreme Court in January 2024 vacated a lower-court injunction and cleared federal agents to cut or remove the razor wire while litigation continued — but Texas kept installing wire in defiance, turning Eagle Pass into a states'-rights spectacle backed by other Republican governors. The standoff is the sharpest single episode of the "invasion" framing that connects Texas border policy to [[Nativism]] and the [[Great Replacement Theory]]. ## See Also - [[Operation Lone Star]] - [[Greg Abbott]] - [[Nativism]] - [[Great Replacement Theory]] - [[Texas History Hub]]