Chip Roy: “I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding time, and I thank him for his leadership on this important issue.…”

“I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding time, and I thank him for his leadership on this important issue. We are here because we are discussing the importance of border security for the United States of America, a question of our sovereignty, the basic duty of a sovereign nation to secure its borders. I had the great privilege of spending some time with the men and women of the Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas this past week--2 days--with my fellow Texas freshman Congressman Dan Crenshaw. What I saw was alarming. What we learned from Border Patrol is that there will be upwards of 400,000 people crossing the border through the Rio Grande Valley sector this year alone. And of that 400,000 people, 200,000 of them, give or take, won't even be apprehended because the men and women of the Border Patrol don't have the tools they need, don't have the fencing and the barriers they need, don't have the ability to drive a vehicle parallel--lateral--to the Rio Grande River, don't have the radio signal to be able to communicate on the border. We found that, of the 200,000 people who will be apprehended, 90 percent of them will be captured and released because we have judicially mandated capture and release today. We have judges who have told us that we have got to capture people and then release them back out into our communities without going through the proper processes to truly vet asylum and truly vet what we are dealing with.…”