Rep. Chip Roy

Again, Glenn, we don't have a nation.

We don't have sovereignty if this isn't something we can easily agree to.

And if we can't agree to that, then I've got to start thinking about whether it is even possible to be in unity with people who don't believe we should be a sovereign nation.

It means that I don't know how you coexist with a governor of another state who refuses to enforce the law and says that he has the right to put dangerous people on the streets of Minneapolis or Minnesota who can get in their car on I-35 from Minneapolis and be to Dallas or Austin, Texas within the day.

Somebody tell me how that works.

It doesn't.

You either enforce the laws under our Constitution, where the Constitution gives direct authority, not all this mindless nonsense that these guys typically do, right, where they use the federal government, they use the Constitution to say the federal government can do whatever it wants, whatever program, whatever spending, which, by the way, is not true.

But the Constitution directly contemplates that the federal government will be setting the laws with respect to immigration and so forth.

It doesn't mean states can't enforce their own laws to secure their border, by the way.

But what it does mean is that the federal government

has the authority and the duty to be able to uphold our immigration laws and to remove people.

And if the states aren't going to work with us on that, then what is left is for people of states like Texas to take the steps necessary to defend our people.

Which means what?

Which means we have to start making decisions in Texas.

about saying look maybe we have to start thinking about who's coming into texas from minnesota like we have to start deciding how are we going to protect our people in the state of texas if the other states if the other leaders in this country are going to thwart the federal government's ability and the federal government's duty

to keep us safe and secure.

Remember, it was Democrats, these same Democrats that said, oh, you guys just have to deal with wide open borders, which was lawlessness.

And the state of Texas being told, well, you've just got to deal with literally hundreds of thousands of people flooding into your state.

Now they want to have the other argument, which is now we're going to thwart enforcement so that you, the people of Texas, have to be put in danger because we refuse to secure the state of Minnesota or any other state that has a similar track record.

So if they're going to upend the rule of law, then we, the people of Texas, and as leaders in Texas, are going to have to make decisions about what are we going to do to protect our own people.