Chip Roy: “I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the previous question. The…”

“I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the previous question. The gentleman from Maryland, my friend, raised some issues about saying that we are wasting time when we have stunts, he called them, I think, or I am paraphrasing. So here I am, and I am going to be talking about an important issue which, I assume, might be labeled as a stunt, to say that I oppose the previous question because there is something for me that is so critical and so existential to the people I represent in the State of Texas and to the people across this country, which is the decision by the CDC, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, and the President of the United States, to end title 42 enforcement on the border of the United States. Now, our mutual colleague and friend who was in the chair, and the Speaker from Texas, Ms. Jackson Lee, who is on the Judiciary Committee, raised the issue about the imminent harm that may befall us because of the continued and new strains of COVID in April. Well, if that is true, why would the CDC say that we should stop enforcement of title 42 at our border? We have 8,000 people a day coming across the border of the United States and being apprehended; 8,000. Half of those are being turned away under title 42. The estimates by Border Patrol experts are that those numbers will swell to over 10,000, maybe as high as 15 to 18,000, when you get to the summer months.…”