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Louie Gohmert: My friend was a former judge in Houston. In fact, he was the kind of judge that is the only judge in Texas that is…

On the recordMarch 11, 2021
My friend was a former judge in Houston. In fact, he was the kind of judge that is the only judge in Texas that is allowed to order an exhumation of a body. We ran into that in one of my criminal trials, and we had to find a justice who would do that. Texas entrusts a great deal with our judges. I did want to touch on some things that I feel rather passionate about because I know people are being hurt. My friend Chip Roy and I were talking earlier. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Rosendale, a number of people spoke on this, but we can't speak enough on what is happening at the border. It is absolutely a crisis, and it really does need to be dealt with. Regardless of what anybody thinks about President Trump, put that aside and look at the border. Look at what it does to people who have been standing in line for years to come into this country legally. We know, and it has been established numerous times, people are not allowed to cross the southern border unless they pay something to the drug cartels. It may be paid through the gang member, through the coyote that is bringing them into the country, but it is still the drug cartels. They are still in the drug business; they are still in the prostitution and sex-trafficking business. It disturbs me that not enough Americans are upset about how much sex trafficking has gone on. They get absolutely worked up when they find out an American has been pulled into sex trafficking and not allowed to get out of it.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Mar 11, 2021

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