With wide open borders and so right now as we have members of congress all 400 and something of my colleagues who just left the chamber they’re going off now to go have a steak dinner go have a glass of wine go hang out with some of their colleagues meet up with some
Folks here in the district of columbia but some 1500 or maybe more miles away in texas we have a state and a people who are dealing with the consequences of an administration that fails to faithfully execute the laws of the united states and leaves texas wide open to be harmed endangered
And nobody in this body on the other side of the aisle seems to care in the slightest bit i went down to south texas a couple of weeks ago with my friend senator ted cruz met with ranchers roma texas met with leaders and ranchers in law enforcement in uvalde texas
Met with the leaders of webb county in laredo texas went down mcallen texas all places that president joe biden has never seemingly been to in his 50 years of public service certainly hasn’t been there since he’s been president vice president of the united states is allegedly in charge of the border
Hasn’t found her way to any of these places that i visited a mere two weeks ago the vast majority of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle haven’t found their way of course one of my colleagues gentlelady from new york a couple of years ago somewhat famously
Found her way down to the border to decry quote kids in cages where is that colleague today wearing perhaps an all-white outfit with red letters on it where is the concern for the little girls whose legs have been branded burned by cartels where’s the concern for the 89 dead migrants bodies found in
Brooks county texas 89 where’s the concern my colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to go around talking about how compassionate they are for those seeking to come to the united states they suggest that those of us who believe that the borders should be secured
Don’t want brown people in the united states that’s what they not only imply that’s basically what they say meanwhile there’s a hell of a lot of brown people in south texas who are getting pretty ticked off an administration that refuses to actually secure the border while their families are endangered
There’s a whole lot of brown people who work for the border patrol who are feeling pretty darn unappreciated right now when the white house press secretary lies to the american people the white house press secretary lies on a daily basis to the american people lie number one perpetuating the lie that border patrol
Was whipping migrants it’s a lie and it’s being repeated by my colleagues on other side of the aisle it is a lie the president of the united states those in charge of the press secretary are countenancing this lie about border patrol this picture i’m standing next to is a
Picture of border patrol with one of their horses interacting with a young man who’s of course a young boy i should say he’s one of the migrants from haiti who’s down in del rio young young fella is having a good time down with his border patrol agent down
On his knees this border patrol agent’s a man probably with a family i don’t know how old he is but i know a lot of border patrol agents because i actually go there i don’t just dismiss border patrol agents as some sort of callous individuals who don’t care about human beings
But that’s what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle do every single day led by the president of the united states with a voice from a press secretary who lies every single day about the state of our border who lies every single day about the actions of border patrol
And then today has the audacity to take away horses at least in the del rio sector i haven’t been able to look at the entire order take away horses from the ability of border patrol to actually try to patrol the border this coming from people who have never been to the daggone border
There are no navigable roads along the river my democratic colleagues don’t care my democrat colleagues don’t care that border patrol can’t run along the river you’d think at least in their politically correct nonsense they espouse every day that they wouldn’t want them to have to use automobiles
Maybe they could use horses to go down to the river now one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle goes down and meets with the ranchers the border patrol agents who are dealing with the actual outcome the actual result of an administrative policy to leave our borders wide open
In the state of texas the department of public safety has caught over 400 pounds of fentanyl this year compared to 10 pounds last year dead texans dead texans as a direct result of this administration’s refusal fled out refusal to faithfully execute the laws of the united states
A sweet and low packet of fentanyl and pure form would kill every member of this body in this room certainly a few packets would ten thousand pounds of fentanyl has been intercepted this year more than the last three years combined where are my democratic colleagues i asked this question when i was laredo
Two weeks ago when i was standing next to the hispanic county judge of webb county county judge in texas the chief administrator of the county i asked where is joe biden when you got up to the podium next he said that is a great question where is joe biden
Well if joe biden knows where he is it’d be helpful he’s sure as heck not down in the border he sure is heck not down in laredo and his policies are abandoning the people of laredo and abandoning the people of texas the policies of my colleagues on the other
Side of the aisle leave texas dealing with the brunt of a wide open border and they laugh it off they ignore it the stash houses in houston texas the stash houses in del rio the stash houses in laredo the stash houses in mcallen the stash houses up and down the border
Where little girls and little boys are being put into the sex trafficking trade my democratic colleagues who love or go pat themselves in the back for being compassionate are nowhere to be found m.i.a joe biden nowhere to be found why people die while people die from opioid overdoses
Almost a hundred thousand this year in the united states when the cocaine problem was a big deal in the 1980s we were talking about ten thousand now we’re talking about a hundred thousand just where in the world are my colleagues on the other side of the aisle
I tell you where they are they’re running around preaching about masks and telling the people of texas that small businesses in texas must force vaccinate texans if they’ve got more than 100 employees that is literally not in the constitution and is fully unconstitutional unlawful and i very strongly encourage the people of
Texas to look at the president united states and tell him to pound sand do not follow that order do not accept it as legitimate it is not and this is a theme that the people of texas are going to have to come to grips with more and more
That when the president of the united states impeachably refuses to faithfully execute the laws of the united states it is incumbent upon a free people in a sovereign state to come up with the ways that they believe are important to defend their borders secure their citizenry and take action irrespective
Of the orders of a president who fails to faithfully execute the laws of the united states i do not make those statements lightly because those statements mean something but we’re under assault in texas and this administration does not care and worse yet this administration is taking specific action and specific inaction
To purposely create the situation that we are having to deal with on the front lines in texas purposely reducing the enforcement of title 42 which enables us to turn people away at the border during a public health emergency pandemic environment where you can have communicable diseases like we’re dealing with right now
Purposely not using the return to mexico program the migrant protection protocols that enable us to work with mexico to stem the tide where last year we had a few hundred thousand people that we were apprehending at the border today this year we have 1.4 million and the year’s not over yet
We will be well over one and a half 1.6 million people this fiscal year think about that 208 000 in august 212 000 in july before the haitians arrived in del rio and by the way if we’re talking about the haitians none of my colleagues on other side of
The aisle seem to care that along the rio grande are drivers licenses from chile passports from brazil because the people from haiti who came to del rio weren’t coming directly from haiti we know this they were in south america and then they got word because word is spreading around the globe ladies and
Gentlemen word is spreading around the globe that this administration says come to the united states claim asylum and walk right in now the problem with that is it’s the least compassionate thing you can do you endanger them on the journey you endanger them through the process when cartels can abuse them
You harm the countries that they’re leaving from through the drain of their resources labor brain drain and you endanger the american people when you have a flood of migrants coming in to a state that then has to deal with it would any of my democratic colleagues
Know what to do for the most part if i airdropped them in to south texas on a 5 000 acre ranch and they had to walk through the scrub brush of south texas running across a rattlesnake and they go find a migrant out there dying from dehydration the vast majority of my
Latte sipping new york living condo living colleagues on the other side of the aisle wouldn’t have a daggum clue what to do when you run across that situation but i can tell you my texan constituents and friends in south texas are figuring out what to do with human beings on their ranches
Would any of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to deal with the 89 dead bodies in what in brooks county would they do they know what to do when they walk up to a body that’s been picked apart by vultures and animals because that individual that human being
Died on the ranch is this an uncomfortable conversation for my colleagues on the side of the aisle when hundreds of human beings are dying in the hot texas sun and county judges have to spend three thousand dollars per autopsy five thousand dollars for each to then bury them
They’re trying to figure out how to handle their budget when they’ve got covent cases exploding but oh no my colleagues on the other side of the aisle they go around talking about oh horses race-baiting defines the party of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle it is the entire existence
Of the party on my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they would take a situation that a democratic president has created purposefully and then dare to turn it into a race-focused situation i would like any of my colleagues on other side of the aisle to stand and
Look in the eyes of the 70 percent of border patrol who are hispanic and tell them that they are racist because that’s what they do my colleagues on the other side of the aisle they go on tv and they say they’re racist al sharpton flies down to go have a
Press conference in del rio texas trumpeting out and bringing out the race card maxine waters wants to compare border patrol agents using horses to deal with a wide open border and a chaos created by this administration to slavery it’s absolutely abhorrent it is embarrassing and the people of texas are up to here
With a union that is not all that united around the principles upon which we are founded and that are showing precious little deference to the people of my state they are fed up there is a tinderbox and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle ignore it
At the peril of the future of this republic this is a big deal what’s happening the nine migrants that were in an automobile in bernie texas two in the trunk an american citizen driving that car who was employed by the cartel the rest day heading to a stash house in houston
Young man had paid four thousand dollars to go pick grapes in california had a rudy rude wake-up call that he was heading to a stash house fortunately law enforcement intercepted them this is happening every single day in our state we know this because we go down and we look
Senator cruz and i go down to laredo we go sit at a checkpoint i didn’t see any of my democratic colleagues there with the notable exception my friend henry cuellar who’s probably the lone democrat who actually acknowledges the crisis that we have along our southern border and we watch these trucks go through
Scanners one out of ten trucks and then we go down to the river and there’s 33 migrants trying to come across the river and we’re watching them across the river and they come out and they swim they go back and are playing cat and mouse knowing when we leave they’re going to
Come across then we get a scan on our phone from one of the scans that came through right after we left the checkpoint with a truck full of 29 migrants in the back every day this is happening and these people are endangered but my democrat colleagues don’t care
Because of the crass cynicism of electoral politics that’s what this is about the good news is is the great hispanic texans of south texas have had enough sappata county went republican for the first time since 1920. when i drove through sapota county just two weeks ago i stopped because i noticed a flag
Flying that had a certain colorful metaphor associated with the president that i won’t of course repeat here on the floor of the house of representatives it may or may not be in line with the chant that has been often used in a number of settings around our country lately in zapata county
In mcallen a republican mayor is recently elected the fact is when people are ignored when people are endangered when people are taken for granted as hispanic americans every single day and hispanic texans in particular are experiencing every single day they tend to take that seriously they tend to recognize that an
Administration that gives lip service to caring for them but lets them die and lets their businesses implode and let their lets their ranches get run over and lets narcotics flow into their community at will all in the false name of compassion and pretending that one cares about somebody
Because of the color of their skin they tend to take offense to that and believe that maybe there should be a better way when i talk to people in texas they ask quite frequently what precisely are we getting out of this deal what does union even mean anymore
What precisely is united about the united states how can one say that we have united states when the president of the united states dictates unlawfully to a people that they must forcefully vaccinate their employees and then thousands of those employees say hey i don’t want to do that because i have natural immunity
And science seems to show that natural immunity may be as strong or stronger than that that comes from a vaccine they tend to take offense they tend to want to tell the authoritarian to pound sand when the president of the united states through his hhs secretary
Walks in and says oh i’m sorry texas i’m sorry florida we’re going to cut your monoclonal antibody treatments in half we’re going to limit your ability to get care we’re going to try to run a campaign against certain medicines that might actually provide care for
Your loved ones and we’re going to do so out of some sort of fealty to bureaucrats at cdc and nih and namely dr fauci the people who are then relegated to the corner trying to figure out how to care for themselves when a cronyistic health care system run by bureaucrats
And government and bureaucrats in an insurance industry that is frankly corrupt a health care system run by corporations in bed with government bureaucrats getting taxpayer funds to enrich them and leaving small businesses and individuals in this country texans i represent holding the bag while the president of the united states limits
Their ability to get health care and then mandates they get a vaccine and then goes off to parties like my colleagues on the side of the aisle tend to do masculist while preaching wearing masks because it’s all theater it’s all a show except that it’s very real and it’s very focused
On accreting accruing power in washington dc my warning to my colleagues is this americans tend to take that sort of thing seriously and while we watch people in australia and we watch people in paris and we watch people in canada even we watch people around the globe resisting the tyranny of government
The united states is filled with people who similarly are predisposed to want to resist the power of the federal government and they tend to take it very seriously my warning to my colleagues is that if this body the people’s house expects for this country to be united
Then it needs to darn well act like it and stop trying to force the will of a federal government against the constitutional framework that we agreed to over the people of the state that i represent because the people of the state that i represent are not going to sit back and let that
Happen this is where we are this is the question of our day are we going to agree to disagree and live peaceably together are we going to force tensions and force conflict which this democrat-led government in the executive branch and the legislative branch is hell-bent on doing
And forcing the people that i represent to have to start asking questions about what we’re going to do to preserve freedom for our children and our grandchildren to go to the doctor of our choice to go to the school of our choice to not have our children be indoctrinated with critical race theory
With dangerous principles of race-baiting teaching our kids that america is evil restricting the ability of our people to be able to go to a doctor because they’ve got to go to a bureaucrat to get permission before getting health care trying to restrict the ability of the american people to arm themselves
While leaving our border wide open and defunding our police and then daring to question why we want to be armed that is how the people of texas are viewing the assault on their constitutional rights and the structure of government that was designed to protect liberty and to allow us to agree to disagree
But my colleagues on the other side of the aisle refuse on a daily basis to allow us to agree to disagree and that is a dangerous position by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle it is a dangerous position by this president it is a dangerous position by the administration
Because there’s going to be a lot of people in at least the state that i represent and i speculate a lot more who are not going to sit by and allow a federal government to run amok over their liberties and to tell them how to live their lives
We’re not going to sit back and allow cartels to run over our border to have drugs pour into our communities to have crimes committed on our streets to have migrants dying on our ranches fences cut livestock loose children in the sex trafficking trade while my democrat colleagues
March down to del rio and cry racism because it’s the only card they can ever pull out of an empty deck a deck not committed to the principles upon which this nation was founded or the flag that sits above the deus but rather a dedication to a leftist socialist marxist way of thinking
And a belief in the all-power of the all-knowing of the authority of those in government to tell the people what to do but that is not the way the american people view their position in a government whose constitution starts with three words we the people we have abandoned
Those first three words we the people and that the power of this government is built upon a foundation of the power coming from we the people and those bill of rights that are in there to protect the people from the power of government we are abandoning those on a daily basis
I am amazed at the extent to which my colleagues on this side of the aisle quite frankly are just too all too often able to just go give a speech go get on a news show put out a press statement about how bad the border is and then
Oh let’s move on to the next issue let’s move on to the next topic when all these headlines about the haitians in del rio subside where will everybody be will my colleagues even on my side of the aisle wake up every day like we do dealing with this in texas and understand what’s
Happening understand how bad a fentanyl epidemic is in this country do the people in this body have the first clue that it is our policies that are enabling china to use cartels to exploit an open border to kill americans and do they care not in the slightest bit then i watch
My colleagues on both sides of the aisle frankly today we spent all day almost 12 hours now i guess probably eight hours offering amendments to the ndaa not one of those amendments that we voted on today not one allowed us to address and debate here on the floor of the house of representatives
The drafting of our daughters the drafting of our mothers the drafting of our sisters the drafting of our wives not one amendment today was allowed by a democrat tyranny in the rules committee to allow us to have a substantive debate on the floor of the house of representatives about an issue as important
As having the united states government conscript women can you imagine that can you imagine a body that is called the people’s house having an environment in which we pass legislation as part of an 800 billion dollar defense authorization bill that had some 400 amendments we didn’t even debate
On the floor of this house we didn’t even debate the drafting of women and more than half of my colleagues on this side of the aisle said oh sure why not why because they sit there and they say well don’t worry the draft will never occur
Well don’t worry if the draft does occur it’ll be because we have some real bad conflict with somebody like china i’m like well which is it you got to have the draft in order to deal with a bad conflict with china or there’ll never be a draft oh well okay
It’ll never be a draft but if there is it’ll be a bad conflict of china but trust us don’t worry your daughter won’t be drafted into combat really trust us in what universe should i trust the government of the united states why would i do that the same government that just abandoned
Allies abandoned americans abandoned sivs in afghanistan left 85 billion dollars of equipment for the taliban to exploit allowed china to be able to get access to bagram air force base walked away from rare earth minerals the same government that is completely ignoring their duty to enforce the borders knowingly
When they have a mechanism to secure and enforce our borders the same government when the president’s own press secretary is lying on a daily basis through her teeth about supposedly horses whipping human beings thoroughly debunked is that the same government i’m supposed to trust not to draft my ten-year-old daughter
When she becomes 18 and is forced by the power of government to register for selective service who are we as a people what happened to us are we such a cold robotic people that we can’t have an actual debate and discussion about the reality of life is that who we are
The same doctor with a cold stare who looked at my dear friend and told her she should abort her little boy because of a brain scan that went a little amok and she was coming up on the term at which you can do that in the commonwealth of virginia and she chose life
And now her son is my godson and he is a healthy little boy the same coldness with which that doctor looked at my friend and said you should abort in front of her two other boys with her husband not there is that what we’ve become is such a cold country
Such a callous country that we just blindly say that in the false name of equality or equity or whatever the word of choices of the day that we must draft our daughters let me be clear over my dead body will you draft my daughter i mean that literally
Over my dead body will you draft my daughter and yet that is precisely what happened today with no debate no amendment allowed and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle i’m particularly ashamed of my colleagues on this side of the aisle for whispering in closed doors about
Well i would have voted against that if we’d had it on the floor i tried to oppose it in committee but you know it’s the ndaa and so you know we’ve just got to support the ndaa we’ve got pay raises for troops and never mind all the other garbage that’s in the bill
We’ve got to support it 60 straight years we’ve got to support it you want to know why the department of defense is a complete mess you want to know why the brass is completely inept and unable to actually run a war unable to actually exit a country when a
President gives a ridiculous order to exit on september 11th for optics you want to know why that department of defense is completely inept we’ve been authorizing it and funding it for decades and my colleagues on this side of the aisle are just as guilty if not more and now
My colleagues on this side of the aisle say sure draft my daughters and when i say as i have said to them that a vote for this ndaa today was a vote to conscript your daughters let me tell each and every one of you across this country that is precisely what it was
And do not let any member of this body get away with hiding or running from the simple fact that today this body voted to conscript our daughters imagine that one day when you’re sitting in your house and the lottery number comes up for your wife and not for you
What are you gonna do or for your daughter and not you what are you going to do the president of the united states has in multiple regards engaged in what i believe to be impeachable conduct the president of the united states has failed to faithfully faithfully execute
The laws of the united states left our borders wide open endangered our people endangered the people of my state the president united states has failed to carry out his duty to defend the united states abroad has in fact aided and abetted the enemy by leaving billions of dollars of equipment
For our enemies to use against us leaving americans behind leaving allies behind and the president of the united states has abused the power of his office to step over the bounds of the constitution to order people order people to force their employees to get vaccinated when he has no such authority
He has no such authority and he knows it he knows it for the exact same reason that the president united states admitted that he didn’t have the power to extend the eviction moratorium he flat out admitted it and said he was only going to do it until such time as the courts could
Hear the case and make a decision that same president knows full well that his orders are unconstitutional but he does not care and that is an abuse of power that same president knows that the borders are being exploited and wide open that cartels are endangering the american people and the migrants who
Seek to come here but he does not care and that is faithless execution of the laws the president of the united states knows full well heck my 12 year old son knows full well as he said as we were driving around dad why why would you leave the equipment
There for the bad guys to get well son maybe you should be an advisor to the president of the united states because he doesn’t seem to understand that concept and neither does the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and neither does the secretary of defense because they’re so focused on chief
Diversity officers and woke policies and critical race theory that they don’t give a rat’s rear end about defending the united states of america for the same reason my democratic colleagues have gone down to the river and gone down to south texas playing the race card enchanting racism and comparing border patrol agents to
Slave holders and where is the secretary of homeland security defending the people that work for him in border patrol while they’re outmanned exhausted resigning because they’re not being given what they need and support from the top leaders of the homeland security secretary mayorkas has the experience to know full well
That abandoning title 42 and a banning mpp in the migrant protection protocols he knows full well that that endangers the people of this country and he does not care he’s leaving the people of south texas exposed he’s leaving the ranchers who work there endangered with fences cut down and ranchers having
To figure out how to protect their families and ranchers sending their children out across the ranches armed to defend themselves ranchers finding dead bodies on ranches the dead bodies of migrants hundreds of them that is faithless execution of the laws that is why the secretary of homeland security is acting with impeachable conduct
The american people are getting sick of this the people of texas are getting sick of this and my admonition to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle is be very careful of walking this perilous journey of authoritarian actions by a president and authoritarian actions by an administration an authoritarian
Legislating by a congress that is ignoring our constitutional framework ignoring federalism ignoring separation of powers ignoring their duties under the constitution and endangering the people i represent on a daily basis because that will not turn out well the people of texas are not going to simply sit back and take it
The governor of texas has been deploying department of public safety personnel to del rio we have more dps people in del rio than border patrol we have more assets more aerial activity and but for the actions of the governor of the state of texas moving dps down to del rio the crisis
Would have truly exploded but that’s only a step the governor in the state of texas and the three billion dollars that the texas legislature appropriated and then are deploying and that dps is down there working and arresting bad actors and arresting people for trespass the state of texas is going to have to
Go further because the federal government is refusing to do its job and at some point the state of texas is going to force a constitutional showdown because it will be incumbent upon the people of texas to do so it will be incumbent upon the people of
Texas to tell the rest of the country to get out of our daggum way so that we can defend the people of our state that’s where we are and while my colleagues decry the fact that texans believe that we should protect life once it has a heartbeat
Well my colleagues decry the fact that we believe we should protect life while my colleagues allow migrants to die texans want to simply keep their communities safe and texans are going to do so the people’s house is supposed to mean something madam speaker the people’s house is supposed to be a
Place where we’re able to come together agree under the constitution on how to have a more perfect union but union doesn’t mean anything when the people of my state is being trampled are being trampled union doesn’t mean anything when the rights of the people i represent are not being respected
When the safety of the people that i represent is not being protected or secured when the blessings of liberty that are supposed to be secured under the constitution or not being secured but being trampled upon then it will beg questions about the efficacy of union i yield back
