Chip Roy

Mr. ROY

Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution, as amended.

Mr. ROY

Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Arizona, and I would really just commend the people who watch C-SPAN, all 14 of them, the greatness of my friend from Arizona and how much he focuses on the spending concerns of our country and the vast amount of debt that we are passing down to our children and grandchildren and what we can do to fix it. He is one of the smartest guys on the subject, and I am deeply proud to serve alongside of him. I appreciate his time here. I actually would like to sit here for 1 hour or 2 to regale him with charts, but I have to go do another thing. Mr. Speaker, I am here right now because the American people are demanding that we, the elected leaders in Washington--that we in the people's House--that we secure the elections of the United States. They are tired of wondering whether their votes matter. They are tired of wondering if those who have no right to vote--those who are noncitizens--are actually packing our ballot boxes with illegal votes. I am more determined than ever to secure our elections, but in an age of progressive, suicidal empathy, basic concepts such as voter ID and proof of citizenship have been attacked as suppression. Let me be clear: Nothing could be further from the truth. Voter ID, voter identification, is arguably the single most commonsense proposal to ever grace this Chamber. A proof of citizenship requirement to register to vote is an idea so basic, so assumed, and so inherent to a functioning republic that opposition to it would offend every man who signed his name to our Declaration of Independence. I have good news for the American people. No longer will our elections be governed by a check box if we do our jobs in this House Chamber and our colleagues in the Senate do their jobs. No longer will people pretend to be an American and, thus, influence our elected leaders. No longer will our elections be insecure if we do our jobs. Last week, I joined with my friend, Senator Mike Lee, in the Senate Chamber to introduce a bill that we call the SAVE America Act. This legislation builds upon bills that we introduced last Congress, the SAVE Act, legislation that was focused on a simple idea of requiring demonstration of citizenship and for States to guarantee that their voter rolls are matched to guaranteed citizenship to be able to have an election in that State. We had a simple bill to guarantee that only citizens are voting in American elections. Now we have added another simple concept: voter identification. Under the SAVE America Act, an individual will be required to provide that proof of citizenship in order to register and, on election day, required to demonstrate voter identification in accordance, by the way, with a majority of American States. Mr. Speaker, the problem is that we passed the SAVE Act. We passed the SAVE Act in the previous Congress, and Chuck Schumer and Democrats stopped it. We passed the SAVE Act in this body last year, in this Congress. So far, Chuck Schumer and Democrats are saying that they wish to stop it in the Senate. So the question is: What will we do here in this House Chamber? I am proud to say that our House leadership is working with us to advance the SAVE America Act as early as next week to be able to move that bill off of the House floor, to get it sent over to the Senate, and thereby allowing the Senate to be able to move that legislation, if--if the Senate will do what it can do, which is force those who are saying that they are going to filibuster to actually take the floor of the Senate and filibuster. See, people don't understand Senate rules. They think that the ``Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' version of the filibuster is the filibuster. But the truth is that Senators have, for a long time, hidden behind the rules to say that there is somehow a magical 60-vote threshold to move legislation through the Senate. There is not. The 60-vote number is simply a fake filibuster--a zombie filibuster, as my friend, Mike Lee, calls it, meaning it is an arbitrary rule that was put in place to, yes, if you have 60 votes, you can shut off debate. The core of the Senate--the core of the filibuster was about people being able to speak. Because on the Senate floor, you can speak, you can vote, or you can be assessing whether you have a quorum. Those are pretty much the things that you can do on the Senate floor. So guess what. If you have a quorum, if you have 51 Senators sitting on the floor of the Senate demanding action for the American people, such as passing the SAVE America Act, then you can force the vote, unless a Member wishes to speak. If Members in the Senate wish to speak against passing a commonsense piece of legislation that polls at 80 percent, then let them do it. Let Democrats go to the floor of the Senate. Let them take the floor. Let them look at 51 Republicans sitting on the Senate floor who want to move a bill that 85 percent of White Americans, 82 percent of Hispanic Americans, 76 percent of Black Americans, 71 percent of Democrats, and 95 percent of Republicans believe we should pass so that we can have security in our elections. We can pass the SAVE America Act. We will do that in the House Chamber next week. We will have citizenship. We will have voter ID. We will send it to the Senate, and if the Senate does its job, if Senate Republicans put this on the floor of the Senate, then we can force action and force Democrats to stand up on the Senate floor and oppose the will of over three-quarters of the American people. I want to see them try. I think if we do it, I think we will win, and I think we will save this Republic, and we will save America.

Mr. ROY. Last year, we had five Democrats join with us and, this year, four Democrats joined with us. I think there will be pressure for a number of Democrats to join with us here and in the Senate.

Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I want to yield the gentleman his time, but I will just close by saying: We sit here in this Chamber under the In God We Trust motto. We sit here in front of this flag. We think about all of the people who came before us who sacrificed for this country. This is the most basic of things that we can do to restore trust in a Republican form of government, where Representatives are sent to Washington to represent them. They have to believe in it. They have to believe in us. They have to believe in the country. What more can you do besides guarantee that their votes count by ensuring that it is only citizens voting in our elections? Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Arizona for yielding.

Mr. ROY. God bless you, brother.

Mr. ROY

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, I thank the Chairman and the ranking member for getting these bills to the floor in a semblance of regular order, as I described in the Rules Committee yesterday. Mr. Chair, Republicans rise to offer two amendments today, one of which is the amendment that I am bringing forward right now. That amendment is dealing with what we call general government. It is that portion of funding that deals with a number of areas including our judges and how judges are funded. One of the issues we have been addressing is the extent to which the President, who is elected to fulfill a mandate, has been carrying out policies that he believes fulfills the mandate the American people gave the President and that Members, my colleagues on this side of the aisle, believe should be fulfilled. Yet, there have been judges who have been putting their personal preferences and their activist tendencies in front of the will of the people and in front of the policies the President is putting forward in such a way that raises questions about whether they are carrying out their jobs responsibly and in accordance with normal judicial ethics and procedures. Therefore, I offer this amendment that would reduce the budget of the district court, the D.C. District Court and D.C. Circuit Court, by 20 percent and would take away the staff funding for Judges Boardman and Boasberg. These two individuals have been particularly egregious in their contempt of the President and have been putting their personal views in front of their duty as judges to carry out the jobs they hold Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, I thank my friend from Maryland for his comments. I wish him well on his retirement. I look forward to regaling that retirement often over the next 10 months. Mr. Chair, I would just note that I am reminded of the line in ``A Few Good Men'' when they say ``strenuously object.''

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, I am reminded of that line in a ``Few Good Men'' when they talk about strenuously objecting and somehow that that makes a more emphatic statement. I would also remind my colleague the way we have drafted this bill is to reduce the budget by 20 percent. Nowhere in the Constitution does it stipulate the amount of money that should be put----

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, at some point we might be able to get an argument out in some sort of fashion where the American people can see it. I would appreciate being able to engage somebody on the House floor. Mr. Chair, the fact of the matter is, if I can keep my train of thought, Mr. Chairman, what I would say is that this has been drafted specifically--drafted specifically--to avoid the constitutional question the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) raises. It was directed at the budget. Nowhere in the Constitution does it talk about the budget. It was directed at the staffs. It was not directed at the judges. Mr. Chair, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs).

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 15 seconds to the gentleman from Arizona.

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Clyde).

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining.

Mr. ROY. Mr. Chairman, we created this court. We can dissolve this court. We can determine the funding for this court. The fact of the matter is that we have a situation right now where judges abuse their power, plain and simple. The D.C. Circuit Court and the D.C. District Court are the locus of that abuse. In particular, they have harassed staff members because people raised the question about why you zero out staff. Mr. Chairman, ask Dan Scavino. Ask Mark Meadows. Ask a number of the people who have been targeted and were harassed by these judges and January 6ers. We should make amends, and we should not fund this court to continue its lawlessness. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. ROY

Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from South Carolina (Mrs. Biggs). Recognizing the South Carolina National Guard

Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from South Carolina, particularly for her shout-out to the National Guard from her own State that has been deployed to the District of Columbia. Unfortunately, that has been necessary, and I am proud of the President for trying to make sure that we secure the Nation's Capital. They are one of the many National Guard units that have been deployed to do the job that the people of D.C. should be doing if they were competent and if they were doing what they are supposed to do as the Nation's Capital. The President is taking charge, and he is leading to ensure that our Nation's Capital is safe for the American people to come visit. I will note that, relatedly, when we are talking about the state of law enforcement and the state of the security of the American people, we have heard a lot of criticisms from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, both in the House and Senate and generally around the country, directed at the great men and women of ICE, the law enforcement agency that is dedicated to the task of removing illegal aliens and, in particular, dangerous illegal aliens from the streets of the United States of America according to the law. They are particularly focusing on and targeting those individuals--I believe the number is around 1.5 million people who are currently in the United States under orders of removal. That is, they have gone through the process. Judges in this country have ordered the removal of 1.5 million people, and ICE is tasked with removing them. Hundreds of thousands of them are dangerous individuals who have committed crimes in their home countries, who are trafficking narcotics, and who have been engaging in criminal behavior in the United States of America. What do my Democratic colleagues do? They stand up in defense of criminals, of criminal illegal aliens, and are in constant attack on the men and women of ICE. Let's just go through some recent criticisms of the great men and women who are working for ICE: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz smeared ICE officers as a ``threat'' to the public, called ICE reckless, suggested the State is at war with Federal officers and under attack by ICE, and smeared ICE as the ``modern-day Gestapo.'' California Governor Gavin Newsom likened ICE to ``secret police,'' calling them authoritarian, and calling on the people to push back. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker claimed ICE is turning the country into Nazi Germany. New York Governor Kathy Hochul accused ICE of ``terrorizing people.'' Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro claimed ICE officers ``make our neighborhoods less safe.'' Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan said ICE officers caused ``chaos and terror.'' Senator Chuck Schumer declared that ICE does not belong in our neighborhoods. Senator Tina Smith called ICE ``a clear and present threat.'' Senator John Hickenlooper smeared ICE as a ``reign of terror.'' Senator Jeff Merkley likened ICE operations to ``fascism'' and claimed officers are doing nothing but ``terrorizing our communities.'' Senator Bernie Sanders asked people to ``stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible.'' Senator Elizabeth Warren claimed ICE is ``intentionally stok[ing] fear and tear[ing] communities apart.'' Senator Ruben Gallego said ICE exists ``to scare the American public.'' Senator Mark Warner equated ICE officers to a brutal dictator. Senator Dick Blumenthal accused ICE of spreading ``lawlessness and recklessness.'' Senator Alex Padilla accused ICE of ``indiscriminate violence.'' Senator Dick Durbin accused ICE's officers of committing ``atrocities.'' Representative Ilhan Omar said ICE is ``state violence,'' called officers ``vile and beyond cruel,'' and stated ``abolishing ICE is not enough.'' Representative Pramila Jayapal called ICE officers ``deranged,'' accused them of ``kidnapping,'' said ``resistance'' to ICE is ``inspiring,'' and claimed ICE officers will ``shoot at you and kill you.'' Representative Eric Swalwell smeared ICE officers as ``masked thugs,'' called them ``terrorizing bandit[s],'' said it was his ``priority'' to ensure officers are ``no longer faceless,'' compared them to the KGB, and demanded they ``stay the f-- out of California.'' Representative Jasmine Crockett compared ICE to ``slave patrols'' and called them thugs. Representative Delia Ramirez said DHS ``is the single biggest threat to public safety right now.'' I will repeat: She said DHS ``is the single biggest threat to public safety right now'' and attacked ICE as a ``terror force.'' Representative Summer Lee said ICE is ``out of control'' and ``a police state.'' Representative Ayanna Pressley called ICE ``a rogue, violent agency'' that ``has no business in our communities'' and ``must be abolished,'' and accused ICE of ``terrorizing our communities.'' Representative April McClain Delaney called ICE ``lawless.'' Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called ICE ``an anticivilian force'' and said they ``should not exist.'' Representative Rashida Tlaib said ICE is ``terrorizing our communities'' and ``turning our country into a fascist police state,'' called it a ``rogue agency,'' and called for it to be abolished. Representative Julie Johnson excused violence against ICE as people ``channeling that frustration.'' Representative Laura Friedman said ICE officers are ``terrorizing our friends and neighbors . . . and bringing chaos and violence to our streets.'' I have dozens more of these. I could continue to fill time on the House floor by going through the absolute vitriolic attacks on the people of ICE, literally another 30 in the list that I could read off. That is what is occurring on a daily basis and is directed at the people of ICE. Now, I will give you a tale of two choices. I want you to look at and make a decision here about who you want to focus on. Over here, we have victims of dangerous illegal aliens that were in the United States of America. Over here, we have five Americans who are no longer with us. We have Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old woman with autism living in Aberdeen, Maryland, who was savagely strangled to death by an illegal alien, an MS-13 gang member released by Biden at the border. Mr. Speaker, we have Sergeant Brandon Mendoza from Arizona, a 13-year Mesa Police Department veteran, who was struck by a previously convicted illegal alien who was drunk when he struck Brandon. Somewhat probably most infamously, we have Laken Hope Riley. Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student who attended Augusta University. She was killed by a Tren de Aragua gang member illegally paroled into the country under Joe Biden. We have Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old Maryland mother of five. While going out for a walk, she was raped and murdered by an illegal alien who snuck across the border under Biden. We have Jocelyn Nungaray, a woman whose mother I have gotten to know, a woman whose mother I invited to join us at the inauguration of President Trump a year ago because of her courage for standing up and calling out the lawlessness of the people who have been released on the streets of this country and that resulted in the death of her daughter, Jocelyn. Jocelyn was a 12-year-old girl in Houston, who was out for a walk, when two Venezuelan illegal aliens released under Biden forced her under a bridge and forced her to take off her clothes before she was savagely killed in Houston, Texas, my home State. Do you want to know what? Their lives mattered. Those individuals' lives mattered. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle, whether they are in this Chamber or in the other Chamber or in State houses across this country, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to ignore what has happened to these five Americans. By the way, they are simply the faces of hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their lives violently through narcotics, through fentanyl, through drunk drivers, through murder, through rape, and through intimidation. They represent a large block of Americans suffering at the hands of people who have been released on our streets purposely for crass political purposes by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. The fact is that has left us with a current situation that is even worse. I will go through a few more. Then I want to bring my colleagues into this conversation. Here behind me, after all of the eruption over what has occurred in Minnesota, where there has been a lot of vitriol directed at ICE in Minnesota, let us look at these individuals right here. These represent about eighteen individuals who are the people that ICE has been arresting in Minnesota. There has been a lot of news over one incident in Minnesota. What we have here is a Somalian illegal alien convicted of homicide. We have a Salvadorian illegal alien convicted of three counts of homicide with a deportation order since June of 2025. We have a Mexican illegal convicted of homicide, who was previously deported in 2002. We have a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of homicide. We have a Laotian illegal alien convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2009. We have an illegal alien from Sierra Leon convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2022. We have a Mexican illegal alien convicted of homicide with a deportation order since 2015. We have a Somalian illegal alien convicted of manslaughter with a deportation order since 2022. We have a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of attempt to commit homicide, weapons possession, and DUI. We have a Guatemalan illegal alien convicted of negligent homicide with a vehicle and a DUI with a deportation order since 2022. We have a Burmese illegal alien convicted of negligent homicide. We have another Laotian illegal alien convicted of the strong-arm rape of a 12-year-old girl and kidnapping a child with intent to sexually assault her with a deportation order since 2024. We have a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and strangulation with a deportation order since 2012. We have a Laotian illegal alien convicted of rape and child fondling with a deportation order since 2003. We have a Laotian illegal alien convicted of rape, rape with a weapon, and sexual assault with a deportation order since 1996. We have a Mexican illegal alien convicted of sexual assault of a child and DUI with a deportation order since 2016. We have a Laotian illegal alien convicted of a strong-arm sodomy of a boy and a strong-arm sodomy of a girl with a deportation order since 2018. We have a Laotian illegal alien convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under age 13 and procuring a child for prostitution with a deportation order since 2006. These are the individuals in Minnesota that ICE--who is being attacked, criticized, and demonized by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle--went out, risked their lives, and put their lives on the line to remove these people from our streets so that our children and our families might be safe. No, I am not going to apologize for ICE. No, I am not going to join in the bandwagon of criticism against ICE. Yes, you review procedures. Yes, you make sure you do things by the book and that people have due process. When we are talking about people who are on our streets, as guests of our country, and they are committing violence against the people of our country, let's remember we have a duty to remove them, deport them, and do it immediately and swiftly. Let's flip the page real quick. I have a couple more. Let's look beyond just Minnesota. Remember that when you have dangerous people in places like Minnesota and lawless States like California and New York, where you have sanctuary cities, then there are dangerous people throughout our country, too. This is just the worst of the worst from yesterday, just yesterday. In Virginia, a 20-year-old citizen of Guatemala was convicted for possessing obscene material of a minor and filming child porn. In my home State of Texas, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico was convicted for aggravated assault of a family member in Harris County. In New York, a criminal illegal alien from Jamaica was convicted for burglary. A criminal illegal alien from Mexico was convicted for burglary. A criminal illegal alien from El Salvador was convicted for false imprisonment and battery. That was just yesterday. Let's look real quick at the worst of the worst from 2025 generally, not just yesterday. In Louisiana, we have a sexual predator, an illegal alien from Honduras, whose criminal history includes active warrants for 394 counts of pornography involving juveniles and two counts of sexual abuse of an animal. In Kansas, a violent criminal illegal alien from Mexico was sentenced to 20 years in prison for one count of forcible assault on a Federal officer after he violently punched an ICE officer and attempted to strangle the officer with his own badge cord. In Virginia, an Afghan national who entered the United States under Joe Biden's ``Operation Allies Welcome,'' provided support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and his father is a commander of a militia group in Afghanistan. In Nebraska, an illegal alien from Honduras and a leader of MS-13, also known as Fantasma, was wanted in his home country for a quadruple homicide. After being charged with firearms charges in Honduras, he allegedly bribed his way out of jail and illegally entered the United States. In Houston, the criminal history of an illegal alien from El Salvador included convictions for sexual assault of a child under 17, multiple DUIs, child fondling, and illegally reentering the United States previously. When ICE conducted an enforcement operation in November to arrest him, he brutally beat an ICE officer with a metal coffee cup. He caused a severe laceration of the officer's mouth and burns to the officer's face. Where are my Democratic colleagues' concern about the ICE officer who put his life on the line and gets mauled and has a laceration across his face because he is trying to stop murderers, rapists, and child pornographers from being on American streets? In my home State of Texas, Jose Alfredo Uzeta, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, operated a dental clinic and performed dental procedures on patients, despite not having a license for more than 20 years. His clinic was uncovered after one of his former patients reported he was convicted of a dentistry act violation and indecent assault. Another criminal illegal alien and his family members ran a sex trafficking operation where they would approach women and girls, some as young as 14, and lure them to the United States under promises of jobs. That is all these people right here. That is these people right here. We have a criminal illegal alien from Vietnam who has been convicted 25 times for crimes including possession of a controlled substance; second-degree robbery; cruelty toward the elderly; arson property; taking vehicle without consent; and theft. I could go on and on. Those are the people who ICE is trying to get off of our streets. Here is the question. This is how I want to open up a conversation with my good friend from Pennsylvania, Scott Perry--a great American and somebody I am proud to serve with here in this Congress and proud to serve with in the House Freedom Caucus. I will yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania in colloquy about how he views whose side we are on. That is what I want to know: Whose side are we on? Are we on the side of American citizens--Americans, including some immigrants and immigrant families, like beautiful Jocelyn Nungaray--are we on their side or Officer Mendoza? Or are we on the side of violent criminals whom ICE is trying to remove from our streets? It sure seems like my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are on their side. They are on the bad guys' side. There really are white hats and black hats, and you have to choose. They are on the bad guys' side. They are not standing with ICE, not standing with law enforcement, not standing up to defend the law enforcement officers who are putting their lives on the line to keep these guys off of our streets so that these Americans aren't killed. I just wonder if my friend from Pennsylvania has a similar view that it ought to be easy to choose sides, and if my friend from Pennsylvania, like me, chooses to side with Border Patrol and ICE and law enforcement and local law enforcement to protect Americans against violent thugs and criminals on our streets? Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania for the purpose of a colloquy.

Mr. ROY. Gang members. Tren de Aragua gang members who took her under a bridge in Houston, Texas, for the last moments of her life, raping her and killing her, and her beautiful mother today is standing up and saying: Enough. Enough. We should enforce our laws. We should stand with law enforcement against the thugs and the gang members who are killing Americans, including Jocelyn, Officer Mendoza, Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Kayla Hamilton. Why do I know their names? It is because I met their families, and I have talked to them, and they are human beings. They were Americans who were living their lives and going to college and going to school and serving their country, and they are dead because people decided, for political purposes, that they wanted to flood our streets with gang members from Venezuela and criminals instead of protecting Americans.

Mr. ROY. That is right.

Mr. ROY. And what we are talking about, again, at the risk of repetition: A Somali illegal alien convicted of homicide, a Salvadoran illegal alien convicted of three counts of homicide, a Mexican illegal alien convicted of homicide, a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of homicide, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of two counts of homicide, and I could go through all 18 again. These are violent individuals. These were all on the streets of Minnesota. Minnesota ICE was on the streets trying to track down these people, and the radical left, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, want to side with these guys.

Mr. ROY. Yes.

Mr. ROY. Yes.

Mr. ROY. I have not heard one, but I have heard--and I read 30 of them before. How about Boston Mayor Michelle Wu comparing ICE officers to a Neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accusing ICE of being ``secret police'' who are ``terrorizing our communities'' and a lawless, racist force. New York City's Zohran Mamdani said: ICE enforcement is ``an attack on us all.'' New Jersey State Senator Britnee Timberlake threatened that ICE officers `` . . . will find themselves in the same position as those who carried out the illegal acts in Nazi Germany. . . . ''

Mr. ROY. Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley claimed ICE is carrying out ``terrorist attacks.'' I could go on and on. They have been calling on people to go out and attack ICE. By the way, the man that was engaged in that incident in Minnesota-- and they will review all of that--he was dragged by a previous protester down the street by a car. I read a minute ago about the ICE officer who was lacerated across his face when one of these thugs attacked him with a steel coffee mug. I talked about another guy that had this cord wrapped around his neck, and they tried to get him. One of these guys did that to an ICE officer. Where is the concern for our law enforcement? My grandfather was the chief of police of a small town in West Texas back in the 1940s. Where is the concern for them? My great-great-grandfather was a Texas Ranger. I was proud to be in the U.S. Attorney's Office, proud to be the first assistant attorney general, and proud to work with law enforcement. Does every member of law enforcement always get it right? No. They are human beings. Do we have ways to go through and punish, rectify, review, and ensure due process and that rights are protected? Yes. Should we? Yes. I want to remind people these are not American citizens. These are guests in our home who are abusing that invitation--or noninvitation to the extent that they were legally here--invitation to the extent they overstayed a visa, invitation to the extent they were abusing a visa that they were issued. For whatever reason that they are here, they are violating that trust and engaging in illegal activity and carrying out the sickest and most heinous crimes. It cannot be allowed to proceed, and we cannot allow people to side against our law enforcement that are trying to keep our streets safe so that we don't lose Rachel Morin, and we don't lose Laken Riley, and we don't lose Kayla Hamilton, and we don't lose Officer Mendoza, and we don't lose Jocelyn Nungaray.

Mr. ROY. Totally objectively--I have been to this floor, I come to this floor a lot, and I watch the House floor--I do not remember a single incident, a single time in my 7 years of being in the United States House of Representatives, not once have I seen it. In fairness, I might have missed one. Maybe somebody will find it in the Record. I have been down here countless times when it is an attack on law enforcement, countless times when it is an attack on President Trump and this administration. I think this really matters. I am going to ask you another question that I think is important. Why are these people here? Why are these gang and thug members here? Why? Was it President Trump?

Mr. ROY. Did President Trump put them on our streets?