Chip Roy: “I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding. Madam Speaker, 185 years ago today in San Jacinto, Texas, the great State…”

“I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding. Madam Speaker, 185 years ago today in San Jacinto, Texas, the great State of Texas won its independence from Mexico. General Sam Houston launched a surprise attack against Santa Anna, routed their forces, and then ultimately was able to negotiate with Santa Anna for his freedom the treaty that resulted in the founding of the Republic of Texas. As a proud Texan, I am sitting here 185 years later recognizing that my State, the State that I am proud to represent, is under siege. It is under constant siege on a daily basis by dangerous cartels, but worse than being under siege by dangerous cartels, it is under siege by a Democrat President who refuses to do his constitutional duty to secure the border of the United States. That is the fact, that this President, obligated under the Constitution, literally refuses to carry out and exercise his constitutional duty to defend our borders--our borders in Texas--where our communities are under siege, where our schools are overrun, where our hospitals are being inundated, where our ranchers are having people cross them, and where dangerous narcotics like fentanyl are pouring into our communities. This is what is happening to my State of Texas on this, the 185th anniversary of the battle at San Jacinto.…”