[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    POLITICIZING THE UVALDE TRAGEDY

  (Mr. ROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I noticed my colleague from Texas down here a 
little bit earlier talking about the tragedy in Uvalde. And I can tell 
you, as someone who represents central Texas and the district and the 
county that shares a border with Uvalde County, it hits close to home.
  But I would note that the President of the United States and my 
colleagues have suddenly found Uvalde and south Texas on a map. When we 
have got 15,000 people in a caravan coming to Texas; we have 700-some 
people, migrants, who have died along the border; we have mobile 
morgues being used in south Texas along the Rio Grande; and now 
suddenly, to go exploit a tragedy for political purposes, my colleagues 
on the other side of the aisle can find Uvalde on a map. Because they 
sure as hell haven't been able to find Uvalde on a map over the last 
year and a half of this administration.
  We will have more to talk this week about the politicization of this 
tragedy in Uvalde, and targeting the pretext and the false use by my 
colleague from Texas of ``automatic weapons'' as opposed to semi-
automatic weapons.

  But let's be clear: Our borders remain wide open, and Americans are 
dying in droves; hundreds and thousands of people across this country 
who are dying because of open borders. We will talk about it this week.

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