By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
McALLEN, Texas |...Well, hey, he said it. We speak this cold Saturday morning of U.S. Rep. Chip Roy and his stance on the mess that is the current Mexican Border. Roy is U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's former chief-of-staff and an outspoken dude. He represents the 21st Congressional District, land that includes most of San Antonio and a chunk of Austin.
Earlier this year, when House Speaker Mike Johnson flew into Texas to tour the Mexican Border (Eagle Pass) with a handful of publicity-hungry Congressional Republicans, Roy opted out.
The 51-year-old native of Maryland said he wasn't going to waste his time with a useless political stunt.
This from rawstory.com: [ An ultra-conservative member of the House Republican majority is laying blame for the surge of immigrants at the Southern border not at the feet of President Joe Biden, but on his fellow Republicans - namely, former President Donald Trump.
During a recent interview with Fox Business News, Roy, who sits on the far-right House Freedom Caucus, took his party to task for failing to take decisive action on the border while they were in power.
"I would acknowledge President Trump failed along with Republicans Paul Ryan and the guys, they failed in 2018 to actually move a border security bill to tighten this so we aren't dealing with this crisis right now," Roy said. ]
Yes, I know. This is the part of the story where I write the Mexican border is no different today than it was 10 years ago. Twenty years ago. Seemingly even longer than that. The U.S., as we keep saying, is an immigrant country that draws immigrants - not always in a legal manner, but it draws them.
Lately, it has been thousands, according to news reports. Most are coming from Honduras and South America - all claiming asylum for Hell-like existences back home. You offer Disneyworld to the world, and the world will come.
Roy's outburst is certainly a rare one inside Republican circles.
He's unique in that he's taking the "real" position, however, and not simply going through the road-tired motions of coming to the border, exclaiming wild observations of lawlessness and disgust and then going back home.
It is, as they say about Sprite in the middle of summer, refreshing...
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