Chip Roy: “I thank my friend from Wisconsin for holding the floor down here with--I am quite confident--riveting expositions on any…”

“I thank my friend from Wisconsin for holding the floor down here with--I am quite confident--riveting expositions on any number of great things because my friend from Wisconsin is a great American, and I do appreciate the gentleman. It is important that we recognize the situation that this country currently faces with respect to our border crisis. It is so beyond understanding that the so-called greatest country in the history of the world could allow an environment in which, as we speak here on the floor, a little girl is getting sold into the sex trafficking trade in Houston or San Antonio in a stash house; or as happened last summer, 53 migrants died in a tractor trailer, cooked in the Texas summer heat; or 40 migrants who burned up just this past week. All, almost a direct consequence of the chosen policies of this administration. That is the simple truth. We have free will as the greatest country in the history of the world, the strongest country in the history of the world. We have to use that free will and make choices. Are we going to be a sovereign Nation that secures its borders and ensures safe passage and avenues for people around the world to come to this country, or are we going to allow cartels to maintain operational control of our border? Are we going to allow cartels to use human beings as profit centers, no matter what it means for them and their well-being?…”