Roy Slams Mask Mandate on Tucker While Border Remains Open: ‘I’m sick of it. I’m watching Texas get decimated with opioids’

WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight calling out the absurdity of the latest mask mandate as power obsessed leaders refuse to lift a finger to stop the violent cartels that have taken control of our southern border, placing Americans and migrants in danger.

Full length of the segment can be found here.

• Our job as representatives of the people is to stand up and represent them and when you say we have to wear masks, we're sending a signal to our country to lay down in fear, for our kids to have to be in the corners as I said this morning on the floor and I'm over it. I'm sick of it. I'm watching Texas get decimated with opioids flowing into Texas, fentanyl. La Joya, Texas right now, we have a hotel filled with individuals who came here illegally that Catholic Charities put in a hotel that they knew had COVID.
  
• Look, I mean, I wish more of my colleagues were down there and is fed up and demonstrating how fed up the American people as I am.
  
• Then suddenly, it was you've got to wear masks, then it was our schools need to be shut down, our businesses need to be shut down, then they were against the vaccine, then they were for the vaccine.
  
• Here in Washington, D.C., Republicans met and forced a conversation with the Capitol physician here on Capitol Hill. You know what we learned today, Tucker? The Capitol physician based his decision to re-require Members of Congress to put masks on again based on a study that failed peer review, is unpublished based on a vaccine in India that is not, you know, approved here in the United States.
  
• Here we are saying, oh, we're going to have to wear masks on the floor of the House, but we're going to do nothing to stop the flow of people coming across our border. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves. I introduced legislation for a discharge petition to require the enforcement of Title 42 so that we will turn people away at the border who have COVID rather than forcing this ridiculousness on the American people... And you know what? Only about 125 of my Republican colleagues have signed the petition yet. Where are the other 80 Republicans? [See who has signed the petition here.]

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