The Illegal Alien Invasion At Our Southern Border

Floor Speech

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding to me. I appreciate him getting this time on the floor for us to address such a pressing matter as the national security of the United States and the well-being of her citizens.

The truth of the matter is, the national security of the United States and the well-being of her citizens in terms of safety and security is not well. We are in danger in our country, on our streets, in our homes from people who are being let into the United States under the not just misguided but purposeful policies of radical progressive Democrats led by Joe Biden and as exemplified by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle in this body and in the Senate purposely releasing people in the United States they know to be a danger to our people.

They are using parole policies and asylum policies that we put in place out of the goodness of our heart to help people around the world, they are using those very narrow exceptions to the rules that secure our border to release thousands of people without vetting them or, frankly, without even caring, into the United States. The result has been the murder, death, rape, assault of American citizens.

My friend from Georgia mentions Laken Riley. I hate to politicize one family's devastation in the last month. She has obviously gained notoriety and caught the attention of the American people, but there are hundreds, thousands of examples of devastated families, whether you are talking about from fentanyl poisoning or the absolute disaster that is a mom in Texas finding her cheerleader daughter dead in the bathtub in her own home when she went to go see her perform cheerleading in Texas. That happened in December. Where is the bill named after Lizbeth? Where is the bill named after Kayla Hamilton, who was raped and murdered in her own home in Maryland, just up the road from here in the Nation's Capital. What about the 2-year-old who was murdered in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside of the Nation's Capital, by somebody let out on mass parole by radical, progressive Democrats who don't give a rip about our Nation's security or the well-being of our citizens. That is the truth.

However, there is a worse truth, in my opinion. In the face of the observable endangerment of the American people by radical, progressive Democrats, Republicans who campaign against it are going to vote tomorrow--or the next day or whenever they decide to jam us with a bill that we have not yet read--to fund this. Republican colleagues who will spend this year campaigning against open borders and campaigning against the destruction of the lives of Americans at the hands of open borders led by Democrats--I want to be very clear, it is led and being carried out by radical, progressive Democrats--but my Republican colleagues will campaign against it, yet tomorrow they will fund it. Tomorrow or Friday or Saturday, whenever we get the bill--we haven't seen it yet--they will spend $1.2 trillion funding Defense which, by the way, is woke; funding State and Foreign Operations which, by the way, includes the United Nations and the World Health Organization; funding all manner of programs that are not good for this country, but notably the Department of Homeland Security carrying out these mass paroles, carrying out these mass asylums, carrying out the release of people into the United States, issuing memoranda saying that ICE should not actually pull these people up and then deport them from the United States. We will be funding that.

Now, not all of us. My friend from Georgia, my friend from Virginia who has joined us, my friend from Louisiana who spoke a minute ago, we won't vote for it. Republicans could stop it. We could stop it. Some are choosing not to. Why? Why? I think that is a question that should be asked.

When Republicans hold the House Chamber, why would they take the power of the purse and provide funding, hundreds of billions of dollars, why would they give this administration funding to carry out policies that release dangerous criminals onto the streets of the United States, including the known dangerous Venezuelan gang member, a prison gang member released into this country who killed Laken Riley? In my own district in New Braunfels, they found just last week a drug lord who is on the terrorist watch list or the most dangerous watch list for the FBI, 10 Most Wanted, found in New Braunfels, Texas, which I represent. I take my family there all the time. This drug lord was just found and arrested.

This administration is endangering America. My Democratic colleagues are all too happy to do it, but my Republican colleagues are all too happy to campaign against it, and then not do a dang thing about it when they write the check to fund it. Not one Republican should vote to fund this atrocity. Not one Republican.

I would debate any Republican who wants to come to the floor right now and debate me on it. You know what? Not one of them will. Not one Republican will take me up on debating the issue of using the power of the purse to fund the endangerment of the American people.

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