Chip Roy Slams Trump For Failing to Secure Souther Border

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• Rep. Chip Roy joins House Republican leaders urging State Legislatures to ensure election integrity
• Texas Republicans unveil sweeping border framework ‘by Texans for Texas’
• 'Fixed it for you': Chip Roy fires back after WSJ editorial board brands him and others 'The GOP Isolationist Caucus'
• Latest Texas Tribune events and articles
• Chip Roy to skip GOP border trip: ‘Our people … are tired of meetings’
• Trump Issues Cryptic Warning About Returning to Power: ‘They Have to Be Very Careful… Because It Comes Back to Bite’

In a speech to the House, Roy said Texans were "struggling" and claimed Republicans would seek to strip funding from the DHS this year. Roy went on to speak about recent migrant apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border and said "we should have stopped this years ago, President Trump could have done that if he led Congress to get something done. That didn't happen." Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is set to lead a group of about 60 Republican lawmakers to Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday as the House zeroes in its legislative focus on the southern border as the 2024 election cycle ramps up. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said he won’t be attending the House GOP border trip Wednesday, calling instead for Congress to focus on new legislation and vowing to fight fellow Republicans to do it, if necessary. His actions have resulted in the death and endangerment of Americans, damage to property and communities across the border, loss of operational control of our border to dangerous cartels imprisoning thousands of migrants sold into human trafficking, and the fueling of deadly drug poisonings of thousands of Americans. Attached for your consideration is a memorandum making that case.

Rep. Chip Roy joins House Republican leaders urging State Legislatures to ensure election integrity

The 2020 general election saw a drastic increase in mail-in voting, with 65 million people voting by mail due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With respect to Ukraine, I support its effort to defeat Putin but cannot support sending $60 billion in additional unpaid-for funding, much of which fails to go to lethal aid, without both a clear mission and the policy changes necessary to force the securing of our own border. The Biden administration has still failed to outline a clear mission for U.S. involvement in Ukraine, despite having sent the country $113 billion previously, from which only $47 billion went to lethal aid, and another supplemental funding request is all but inevitable. Yet again, Congress is looking to face a government another shutdown as yet another continuing resolution (CR) passed this fiscal year is set to expire.

Texas Republicans unveil sweeping border framework ‘by Texans for Texas’

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, and members of the House Freedom Caucus have stalled Ukraine aid for months demanding that Congress pass a bill securing the southern border before considering the foreign aid package. On Tuesday, Roy circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter urging his conference to withhold government funding until Democrats and the administration agree to asylum reforms and border security included in the Secure the Border Act. That promise follows threats from House Republicans to refuse foreign aid funding for Ukraine until Senate Democrats and the Biden administration can agree to a border security bill. The two sides have continued negotiations on the issue for weeks. In the 2020 general election, some state election officials and state court judges unilaterally extended deadlines for receiving mail-in ballots.

'Fixed it for you': Chip Roy fires back after WSJ editorial board brands him and others 'The GOP Isolationist Caucus'

The 2020 general election demonstrated the need for state-based legislative reforms to improve the integrity of our federal elections. In 2020, several states made last-minute changes to election administration—such as expanded mail-in voting and ballot harvesting, relaxed voter verification measures, and extended deadlines for voter registration and ballot receipt—without the necessary planning, hiring, training, or procurement. This led to uncertainty, confusion, and delay in many election results. We respectfully write to urge state legislatures to implement measures to improve state election integrity so that all Americans may have confidence in the integrity of future federal elections.

Latest Texas Tribune events and articles

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Republican Rep Chip Roy, known for his blunt speaking in the House of Representatives, served up a fact-check to Donald Trump concerning the southern border with Mexico and the flow of migrants. But I am wondering, you, did, you know, hit your wagon and you bravely did so to go to Ron DeSantis.

1, a bill that would amount to an unconstitutional federal take-over of election administration and eliminate already existing election integrity measures in state law. Further, despite assertions of an “open” process, the foreign aid bills were brought forward with anything but. While individual votes were held on assistance for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, and a package that included a bill forcing the CCP to divest from TikTok (among other items), the rule providing for their consideration packaged the bills together as an amendment to the Senate-passed foreign aid bill. Worse still, a mere seven amendments received consideration on these bills, despite over 300 having been filed, and not a single amendment to secure the border was made in order. These bills were brought forward under a contrived process to achieve a pre-determined outcome — a $100 billion, unpaid-for foreign aid package while failing to secure the southern border.

The Biden administration has renewed pressure on the Mexican government to stem undocumented immigrants in recent weeks. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas met with the president of Mexico last week to discuss migrant policy. “It’s time to act with urgency,” he added, noting a “historical failure” of Republicans to properly address border security in the past. “It is most certainly a ‘high crime or misdemeanor’ for a public officer to purposefully endanger Americans while willfully ignoring one’s oath to enforce our laws," wrote Rep. Roy in his letter to House Republicans. According to the piece, Roy and 13 other House Republicans voted across the board against four of the bills that passed in the House on Saturday.

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GOP Lawmakers Visit Border and Take Step to Impeach Mayorkas.

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Thousands being sold into sex trafficking trade – being used as crass political pawns by a party devoid of anything substantive to take this country forward. President Trump signed 12 continuing resolutions after he said he would never sign another one if they didn’t give him the money to finish building the wall. This is why I support Governor DeSantis, who has delivered better than any, uh, you know, politician I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. WASHINGTON, DC — Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) called on his House colleagues to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. WASHINGTON, DC — On Friday, Representatives Chip Roy (TX-21) and Mike Collins (GA-10) called on Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to end the Biden administration's abuse of parole. This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune, a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engaging Texans on state politics and policy.

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Townhall.com is the leading source for conservative news and political commentary and analysis. House of Representatives unveiled their legislative framework for fixing President Joe Biden’s crisis at the southern border on Thursday while blasting the Democrat commander-in-chief for failing to address the ongoing disaster. Learn about The Texas Tribune’s policies, including our partnership with The Trust Project to increase transparency in news. Roy declined to comment on if he would support a motion to vacate Johnson’s speakership.

Secretary Mayorkas has blatantly ignored the law requiring him to deport migrants and surrendered operational control of the border to cartels. However, Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales did sign onto this letter after not doing so in August. He failed to meet the 50 percent threshold to win his primary on Super Tuesday earlier this month, and will face Brandon Herrera in a May runoff reelection. While border security has long been a priority for House Republicans, the murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley, who was allegedly killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela with prior arrests, has upped the sense of urgency. More than 4 million individuals have been encountered at our southern border since President Biden took office.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy has even called for the resignation Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Roy's call also follows a recent trend of Republicans seeking to defund various agencies, such as the FBI. A representative for Roy did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

There is no way to verify the identity of the person dropping off ballots and their relationship, if any, to the voter. There is also no mechanism to determine the ballots' chain of custody, increasing the risk of lost, stolen, or destroyed ballots. As the House Freedom Caucus put it when quoting from the letter shared over X, these 43 members are urging their colleagues to "use the power of the purse in this week’s government funding bill to dismantle Biden’s disastrous 'open borders' policies, otherwise Republicans will be actively funding this crisis."

8038, the so-called “sweetener” package, including the bill to force CCP divestiture from TikTok, of which I was an original cosponsor in the House. However, this measure was packaged with the REPO Act to seize assets to fund Ukraine, which could further implicate the U.S. in the conflict and further undermine America's dominance of the international financial system. For months, House Republicans — specifically, Speaker Mike Johnson — have been unequivocal that we would not send billions in additional aid to Ukraine without securing our own border first. This package represents a complete reversal of a position that previously unified the Republican conference, despite the clear and present danger the southern border represents to U.S. national security. It is most certainly a “high crime or misdemeanor” for a public officer to purposefully endanger Americans while willfully ignoring one’s oath to enforce our laws. We should call for it now – despite Democrat control of the House – and make the case for immediate border security better than any speeches we can give or bills we can introduce.

“The House Freedom Caucus will vote NO on rule for the ‘America Last’ foreign wars supplemental package with zero border security, and urge all House Republicans to do the same. To secure the border, we must kill the rule,” the caucus said in a memo Thursday. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, and members of the House Freedom Caucus who have stalled Ukraine aid for months, demanding that Congress pass a bill securing the southern border before considering the foreign aid package.

You continued supporting your campaign with him in Iowa. Uh, but a lot of people say his campaign is on life support. Roy is not alone in his drive for disruption or his dissatisfaction with House leadership.