[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 83 (Monday, May 16, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4976]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CRISIS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. ROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I wasn't going to use this 1-minute time, but I 
just got a text from some contacts down on the border in south Texas 
from Eagle Pass with drone footage of yet another enormous group that 
is crossing illegally onto private property around Eagle Pass. A Texas 
soldier tells us that there have been 2,000-plus crossings in this 
specific spot in the last 8 days, yet the Secretary of Homeland 
Security testified in the House Judiciary Committee that ``he and this 
administration have operational control of the border.''
  But this is factually incorrect.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle do not seem interested 
in having a debate or a discussion here on the floor of the people's 
House about a crisis facing the State of Texas and the entire country. 
Over 107,000 Americans died last year from drug poisonings and drug 
overdoses, yet I get crickets from my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle.
  Mr. Speaker, do you want to know what is happening in south Texas?
  Hispanics in south Texas are flocking away from a party that doesn't 
care if they suffer or if migrants suffer while dead bodies rack up in 
the Rio Grande and the ranches of south Texas. They have had enough, I 
have had enough, and the people of Texas have had enough.

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