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Rep. Roy on Fox News: “Cartels have operational control of our border”

April 21, 2021

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, in an interview with Harris Faulkner on Fox News' Faulkner Focus, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) slammed Vice President Harris for her disregard to deal with the border crisis that continues to empower drug cartels and human traffickers to bring their horrific activities across our southern border and into American communities.

Some key quotes from Congressman Roy are below, and footage of the remarks can be found at the link here.

  • Kamala Harris has been ‘on the job' for a month… She's not gone to the border, she's done nothing to address this.
  • The cartels are operating in your suburban communities, and not just in Texas. And the Democrat administration, the Biden administration, they don't care.
  • The Biden administration is encouraging more flow, instead of using the tools that we have at our disposal to stop the flow at the border. That's what this is about, protecting Americans, protecting immigrants, and not empowering cartels.
  • Yesterday, I filed a discharge petition of my friend, Yvette Herrell's bill, to require Title 42 the CDC's requirements and guidelines that we protect against the influx of pandemics in the United States that we resume enforcing that, which the Biden administration has refused to do.
  • [Border Patrol] will tell you Title 42 is the tool they've got to be able to stop the flow at the border and be able to hold the line. And the Democrats in the White House have already gotten rid of it for kids and families, but now they're rumbling about getting rid of it for everybody. If they do that, the bum rush at our border will make the 171,000 in March seem like a trivial number.
  • [The Biden administration] is ignoring what's happening at the border with respect to COVID. We know that there are COVID infected children at the facility in Carizzo Springs. How do I know that? I went there. You know who hasn't gone there? Kamala Harris.
  • This is happening in the most powerful nation in the world. We're allowing this to occur and Democrats refuse to do anything about it.