Jeffs is untouchable because the FBI does not want to risk a standoff.
And the logic of the FLDS is inescapable: in a polygamous culture, certain men will wind up as losers who do not get to marry. In a small community of a few thousand where polygamy commonly means a dozen or more wives, hundreds of men will be the losers and a few hundred angry, marginalized men in a community that small are a clear threat to Jeffs' regime.
He is doing the smartest thing he can: selecting the losers at an age so young that they do not yet grasp the situation fully, and isolating and exiling them one by one instead of giving themselves any consciousness as a group.
These young men should return en masse to Colorado City as an organized group, use the fact that they have hundreds of mothers, stepmothers, sisters and half-sisters sympathetic to their situation and stick it out.
If I were governor of UT and CO I would use eminent domain against Jeffs to annex land contiguous to Colorado City and give it to the exiles for them to build houses on.
If I were prominent in the LDS, I would send female anti-FLDS missionaries into Colorado City to talk to the women.
If I were the exiles, I would arm myself, go around in groups and openly mock Jeffs in front of the young men and completely ignore Jeffs, his inner circle and his dummy police force.
There are ways to break Jeffs without a standoff composed entirely of insiders versus outsiders.
The goal should be to blur the lines and undermine Jeffs.
Colorado City lies on the border of Utah/Arizona. Just for clarification.
Trouble is, the LDS church still believes in polygamy. Of course they will deny that fact.
BTW Colorado City is in Arizona along what we call the "Arizona Strip", a very narrow piece between the Grand Canyon north rim and the Utah border.