Rep. Chip Roy
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So that would raise those questions.
Where are you coming from?
Why are you coming into the state of Texas?
And where are you from?
And whether or not they should be coming into the state of Texas.
Look, I have said and the Freedom Caucus yesterday said in the letter we put out that we believe that the president would be well within his rights to invoke the Insurrection Act, which dates back over 200 years, for justice purpose to make sure that we can stop this interference.
By the way, we can use any number of federal laws, from obstruction of justice to specific laws on the books that can be enforced against people interfering with carrying out law enforcement.
But again, I just want to remind you, Glenn, I mean, because
And I don't want to speak for you, but I suspect we're simpatico here, that we do not like the raw power of the federal government being used to come into state.
I'm not looking to go empower massive federal law enforcement individuals.
That's not how I'm wired, and I don't think that's good.
In this case, the sovereignty of the nation and our ability to, what I said before, I know it's somewhat controversial, our ability to exist as a nation, okay, and to unite requires us to stop the madness and to stop the lack of enforcement of the law.
And to your point about the fraud, that's a part of it too, right?
That they are stealing money from us in the form of fraud, both taxpayer-funded money as well as borrowed money
To then fund people who are here, whether they're here legally or illegally, it's both, in order to continue to prop them up and then prevent us from enforcing the law to not have dangerous individuals or people in order to be removed who are using up resources, both legitimate and illegitimate.
And that destroys the country.
Like, Glenn, we won't have a country left.
So we either win this battle right now.
We either rally around the president and say, enforce the law, enforce the sovereignty of the country and do it right.
Like Tom Homan going on the ground was a wise move by the president.