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Chip Roy: I thank my friend from Texas for his remarks. Madam Speaker, I think the gentleman who has spent time at the border, as…

On the recordMarch 11, 2021
I thank my friend from Texas for his remarks. Madam Speaker, I think the gentleman who has spent time at the border, as I have, would appreciate the story that I can recount. When I was last there, there was a conversation involving a young man who had come across, and he was being questioned, as the gentleman just described. He was questioned about where he came from and all the things to go through, his age and so forth, and then at one point the young man said he needed to use the bathroom. The Border Patrol agent said: Oh, sure, it is no problem. Let me get up and show you where it is. He said: Oh, I know. He knew. He knew where the bathroom was. This wasn't his first rodeo. This is happening every day at our border, literally every day. But the media just goes about its business, ignoring the crisis now that it is not politically expedient to do so. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle spent the last 3 years saying that it is all a manufactured crisis and that there is no crisis at the border. Then with Trump, there was a crisis suddenly. There wasn't a crisis, and then there was a crisis. Then there were people drinking out of toilets--a lie. Then it was kids in cages--a lie. Fences and barriers were put up in facilities to protect these kids and separate them from the dangerous elements to make sure someone claiming that they are this kid's uncle is actually the kid's uncle.…
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Chip Roy
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Mar 11, 2021

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