Chip Roy: “I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert), and I thank all colleagues from the House Freedom Caucus for…”

“I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert), and I thank all colleagues from the House Freedom Caucus for joining me here on the floor. I thank my friend from Virginia, who joined me down in Del Rio, Texas, just a month ago, where we saw firsthand what is actually happening in real-time on the border, something that we know and, unfortunately, my colleagues on this side of the aisle refuse to acknowledge and refuse to do anything about. Now, as you all know, one of our Freedom Caucus colleagues from New Mexico (Ms. Herrell) filed, 14 months ago, a piece of legislation to require that title 42 be enforced at our border. For those listening at home, title 42 is our power as a country to stop communicable diseases and people with communicable diseases from coming across our border. It is an important tool that President Trump and his administration put in place in the last year of his administration to ensure that we stop the flow of people across the border from inundating and overwhelming Border Patrol. We knew this was coming. Fourteen months ago, we knew this was coming. A year ago, we came together. I filed a discharge petition as part of this team to say that we can force a vote on the floor of the House. Well, the Speaker of the House refuses to bring to a vote a measure to enforce title 42.…”