Securing the Southern Border

Floor Speech

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Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, I would agree with my friend from Pennsylvania. I appreciate him having this time on the floor, and I appreciate my colleagues for coming down.

The State of Texas is on the front lines under siege, the communities that I represent, dealing with the scourge of open borders, the dangers that are provided by cartels, and the illegal elements that come across the border on a daily basis--and this body does nothing about it.

This week we are going to entertain legislation that will do nothing to combat China. Nothing to stop China from continuing to run rampant around the world, violating human rights, undermining our national security. We are going to put together a nonsense bill that is a Green New Deal agenda, a pacify and appease China bill. We should be saying what the woman from Texas said to the coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team: Beat those Commie bastards.

That is what we ought to be saying. That is what we ought to be doing. But no, no, no, here we sit doing nothing. But you know what we are doing, we are sleeping while our border is wide open. But worse than that, the Biden administration and Secretary Mayorkas are taking purposeful steps to open our border, disregard the law, and to fail to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Our country is in danger and Americans are dying.

Americans are dying specifically because of the actions of the Secretary of Homeland Security. That is what is actually occurring. We have fence rusting in fields in Texas. We have contracts that aren't being paid. In fact, we are paying people not to work--not to build the fences.

We are not using migrant protection protocols. We are not using Title 42. We are releasing people into the United States against Federal law. We are not doing anything to actually secure the border and, therefore, the Secretary of Homeland Security should be impeached for it.

I will make one final point. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, stood at a podium and laughed about our commentary about the borders being open and our streets being unsafe. She lied. She lied about Border Patrol agents whipping migrants. It was purposeful and it was done to divide our Nation by race, the same kind of division that has the President of the United States choosing the race and the sex of the Supreme Court justice. This is the same man who blocked Janice Rogers Brown, blocked a Black woman Supreme Court justice. He blocked an Hispanic Miguel Estrada because he was Hispanic and because he is not the right kind of Hispanic.

That is the truth. That is the truth of a President and an administration that wants to divide our county by race, they want to lie about our Border Patrol agents, and they don't want to do a dang thing about it.

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Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, I am glad the gentleman from Pennsylvania asked the question. It stands nowhere. They are not giving us any report. They said it would be a couple weeks away. I can tell you why. Because the report will demonstrate there was no whipping. It was a lie.

They owe an apology to those Border Patrol agents who are being abused on the front lines, having guns fired at them, dealing with COVID. No apology.

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Mr. ROY. Amen. Amen.

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Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, no. And the President should apologize for that and the President should apologize to every parent of a dead American kid who takes Xanax and dies with it laced with fentanyl because we have open borders--and the Secretary knows it.

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Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, the Border Patrol was saying: What are we doing? We are doing nothing. That is what the Border Patrol is saying. But my colleagues on the other side of the aisle wouldn't know that because they never have hearings inviting the people on the front lines to talk, and actually hold the Secretary accountable.

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