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Chip Roy: That is what happens. They get processed and released. And then, Mr. Speaker, when you have migrants who are coming in…

On the recordOctober 21, 2021
That is what happens. They get processed and released. And then, Mr. Speaker, when you have migrants who are coming in between the ports of entry and they come across ranches and ranchers come across them or they die in the desert, then they are left having to deal with the body. They are left having to go and have a coroner come and do the autopsy. They have to have, like the gentleman said, body trailers coming down there. Mr. Speaker, you can't make this up. I just want to know: Do my Democrat colleagues think we are making this up? They may not know because the Secretary of Homeland Security sure as heck isn't coming down and explaining this to us. I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, we are not having a debate here on the floor of the House about anything at all much less our border. Oh, we have time to have political show trials. We have time to have a subpoena by a sham commission in which you wouldn't even put on the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Speaker. You wouldn't even put on my friends, Kelly Armstrong, Jim Banks, no, we can't do that. So we are going to have a show trial, we are going to come out here, and we are going to have political theater. But we are not going to do a doggone thing about migrants dying and Texans dying from fentanyl overdoses. Why don't we talk about the danger of fentanyl? Oh, no, we don't want to talk about that. Everybody over here has a steak dinner they have to go eat tonight.…
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas
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Oct 21, 2021

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