Chip Roy: “I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, a couple of nights ago, I was in Laredo, Texas, doing…”

“I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, a couple of nights ago, I was in Laredo, Texas, doing an interview while overlooking the Rio Grande. My interview was interrupted by a stream of human smugglers and people shouting ``run for the ladders, run for the fences'' coming from the water. Then, some went back across the river. I went over to a facility where children are being housed right now. They are the people being smuggled by cartels for profit. That is happening right now today. While we sit in here and debate this bill, it is happening right now. A child is being abused right now by cartels. And this body, the ``people's House,'' is doing nothing--nothing--to address cartels that have ownership of our borders right now. We are not doing our job. A secure border is pro-immigrant. Instead, what we are doing today is we are going to pass legislation that is a magnet for more trafficking of children. We are going to pass legislation today that empowers cartels. We are going to pass legislation today that is a Band-Aid on a broken system because this body refuses to do its constitutional duty to secure the borders of the United States. That is what we are going to do today.…”