Friday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Your World,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) railed against his Republicans, who seem to only pay lip service to fixing the border.
The Texas Republican said while his colleagues were talking about it, there were consequences in his home state that resulted from the porous southern border.
“Look, what I make of it is, they’re a bunch of words,” Roy said. “And going back to my speech this week, the American people are tired of words. So, look, I’m glad they’re talking about the border. Great. But, at this point, the president, our president, is the one who could do something about it right now but refuses to. And it’s the people that I represent in Texas, the people that I know in Texas, that are left carrying the bag. It’s the parents who’ve lost a loved one to fentanyl poisoning. It’s the ranchers who have had their livestock get out and their livelihood get decimated in South Texas.”
“It’s the migrants who die in Texas, the almost 1,000 last year who died along the Rio Grande in South Texas, the little girls getting sold into sex trafficking trade,” he continued. “Neil, it’s unconscionable. And yet this…
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