A Tennessee man was arrested on gun charges late last week after the FBI alleged that he was scheming to violently attack immigrants and Border Patrol agents at the southern border.

While the man, Paul Faye of Montgomery County, Tennessee, had allegedly been plotting a potential attack for the past year, he was spurred on by talk of an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the FBI — the very rhetoric Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been using publicly to justify his standoff with the federal government there.

Much like the trucker “Freedom Convoy” that was supposed to descend en masse in Washington, D.C. to protest COVID-19 vaccine rules in 2022, the event largely amounted to a much-hyped dud. About 700,000 protesters were expected to attend three separate “PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY & PRAYER” events, but crowds did not reach anywhere near those numbers, according to local media reports. The events were planned by a man named Robert Agee, who is affiliated with Mike Flynn’s grifty “ReAwaken Tour,” and, according to Vice, speeches delivered at the various locations were reportedly “a soup of grievances, anti-government conspiracies, and dehumanizing language about migrants.” The activities undertaken by the smaller-than-expected group of demonstrators reportedly had a Christian nationalist bent, and some of those gathered were even baptized.