Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas., on Biden's open-border policies causing a national security threat.
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It is disturbing,
it is disturbing
new data and it shows what it
migrants on the terror watch
list ive been arrested, trying
to enter our country illegally.
Since Joe Biden took office.
Those numbers released after a
request from congressman
chip roy to the department of
homeland security
congressman chip. Roy joins us
now
good morning to you
congressman.
You are slamming
Joe Biden for blaming them for
the forty two people with terrorist
sizes sneaking into our country.
Many more did sneak in that we
didnt catch.
What led to that?
What led to the investigation trying to find out the true
trying to find out the true
numbers?
You are asking the question
that every American is asking
right now and Jen psaki is
dismissing
bill. Melugin is out there doing
such great reporting.
He had seen something like twenty three or
got information that there were
twenty three.
We got the information the same
day or week.
We sent a letter last august.
It took eight months.
My office finally got a response.
Back a month later for the
detailed questions we had asked,
one of which they answered,
indicating that there were forty, two
individuals arrested with known
ties to you, know terrorists.
They were on the terror watch
list,
thats a real problem.
The thing is: Jen psaki
dismisses that and says thats
000 x, of the encounter
jen psaki cant tell us how many
people have come into our
country who are known, got aways.
We know from the intelligence we
are looking at in the
information we get from border
patrol agents that there has
been some five thousand six hundred thousand. Maybe
seven hundred thousand known got aways.
They are the worst actors who
come into the united states.
In addition to the forty two
individuals on the terror watch
list, there are four hundred and eighty that were
stocked with known gang
affiliations,
to translate those numbers to
the five hundred thousand or more got aways.
None number coming out on a
daily basis,
two thousand to come across our border.
Every day
the border patrol agents can
even get to
what is disturbing about. This is
the extent that they just
dismiss this, as if we shouldnt
care whats happening at our
border,
god bless bill. Melugin for
seeking the facts
were trying to do the same
thing in congress.
The twenty three number was
up until december.
Now we are in the april its
forty two
when Jen psaki says it is 00 x
percent of how many are coming
over. All it takes is one
thats right.
That is the truth.
We saw that, obviously, with a
tragedy in new york in two thousand and one on
nine slash eleven,
these are over stays.
Weve got people that we know to
be dangerous individuals.
It is not just the terror watch
list,
the four hundred and eighty affiliation of gangs,
the people coming in with
massive criminal histories, and
we see the crimes committed to
the united states,
talk to the ranchers in south
texas and getting impacted every
day by criminal individuals.
Administration refuses to secure
the border,
its on them and its purposeful,
purposeful.
We are in the
middle of inflation highest in
forty years.
We are paying for them
three hundred and thirty, eight dollars million on infrastructure.
Ninety eight dollars million on dollars on
utilities and food,
three thousand three hundred and thirty, three
twelve dollars million on transportation by
vehicle.
Look at the encounters in march
the highest in a very long time.
We are probably going to see
higher numbers in april because
its getting warmer and in may,
when title forty two ends. What can we
expect?
That is the exact question to
ask
you know Brandon and the people
that I know and the people that
I talk too regularly.
We are looking at numbers that
could explode from the current
seven thousand or eight thousand a day up to
fifteen thousand, maybe even more a day if
they repeal or stop enforcing
title. Forty two
weve got a way to solve that
problem.
That is, the department of
homeland security to continue to
enforce title forty, two and frankly go
further and turn people away at
the border.
The american people are tired of
this
im in texas. Right now, in the
district that I represent in
austin and san Antonio,
I met with a bunch of people
yesterday
they want our borders secured.
They want to get the federal
government out of the way
telling them what to do in
living their lives,
its a simple prescription for
the future of our country.
Transcript generated on 2022-11-25.