“There are a lot of things floating around about ‘sanctuary this’ and ‘sanctuary that,’” said Trey Tenery, 50, sitting in the back office of his Victory Guns and Guitar Works store in downtown Lindale. “I think people are kind of putting their foot down about different things they believe in.”

Mr. Tenery supports the creation of the anti-abortion “sanctuary” measures, as do many other residents of Lindale, where white crosses are positioned in graveyard fashion in front of a Catholic church to mark the “213 Texans who die each day from abortion.”

For Mr. Tenery, the building of a metaphoric wall that aims to keep out abortion providers would preserve his values in the same way that he believes a real wall at the Mexican border would. A wall, he said, would protect people from drugs and sex trafficking coming from the Mexican border, which is about an eight-hour drive from Lindale. (The police in Lindale said sex and drug trafficking have not been major issues in the community.)

Other people who supported the sanctuary-city measures in Lindale said they saw the move as a way to take a moral stand against abortion.

“It seems the liberal agenda has gotten so out of hand,” said Andrea Josselet, a Lindale resident who voted for Mr. Trump and called him “the most pro-life president we’ve had.”

Paul Fancher, an engineer from Lindale, opposes abortion for religious reasons, saying, “As a student of the laws of the God of heaven I have discerned that the shedding of innocent blood is something to be concerned with.”