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Chip Roy: Correct, and he understands what the swamp is all about. The gentleman brought up the impact--I think that this is one…

On the recordApril 7, 2022
Correct, and he understands what the swamp is all about. The gentleman brought up the impact--I think that this is one of most important things we can say here in closing. The gentleman brought up the impact in Lynchburg, Virginia. People think this is just a border issue, and I come down here because it is Texas. Yeah, we are taking it on the chin. I have ranchers who are crying. I have people who are victims of crime. I have migrants in my district who are abused, all under the false name of compassion, about open borders. We have got to sit back and find dead bodies of migrants on ranches, get a morgue brought down to put 115 dead bodies in, in one county. My Democratic colleagues are like: Whatever. Who cares? It is just some problem we have just got to deal with. That is the reality. But it stretches throughout the country.
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Apr 7, 2022

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