Chip Roy: “The amendment that we have in front of us prohibits funding from the act to be used to terminate the Migrant Protection…”

“The amendment that we have in front of us prohibits funding from the act to be used to terminate the Migrant Protection Protocols. This is one of the most important things that we need to address. H.R. 2, which this body, led by Republicans, passed in the spring, addresses the need to return to use of Migrant Protection Protocols to put in place the return to Mexico and remain in Mexico policies of the previous administration, which, when combined with the use of title 42 authority, were effective in eliminating the flow coming across our border. When the current administration completely abandoned on day one the use of Migrant Protection Protocols, the reality is we have seen the resulting chaos at our border. It is hard for anybody who is objectively looking at the state of our border to find any defense for the current policies of the administration allowing the abject failure to occur. This amendment would assert our Article I authority to say to the President that the President must not use funds to terminate the Migrant Protection Protocols--that is, we should not be funding the failure of this administration to do its job. Very simply put, as we put forward in H.R. 2, the choices before us should be to detain, to put in expedited removal, or to put in a migrant protection protocol-type system, remaining in Mexico.…”