The young women were among the more than 460 children taken from the Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado by Texas Child Protective Services six weeks ago after investigators determined the children had been sexually abused or were at risk for abuse.

That raid and its aftermath cost nearly $7.5 million in state spending during the first 19 days of what is now one of the largest child custody cases in U.S. history, the Austin American-Statesman reported today.

See how much money and resources we waste on trying to keep this pluralist empire together with state law enforcement. What'd happen if we declared all states independent and let people organize communities after ethnicity, culture and shared values instead? Organic societies work, globalist empires don't.