{"id":1426793,"date":"2022-04-09T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T13:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426793"},"modified":"2022-04-09T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T13:59:53","slug":"rep-chip-roy-calls-to-stop-funding-government-were-being-invaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-chip-roy-calls-to-stop-funding-government-were-being-invaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Chip Roy Calls to Stop Funding Government: \u2018We&#039;re Being Invaded\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-chip-roy-calls-to-stop-funding-government-were-being-invaded%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>The United States is currently under \u201cinvasion\u201d at its southern border, according to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who called to reject funding a government that refuses to secure the border, pass his discharge petition to preserve the policy that helps border officials regulate the inflow of illegal immigration, and have the Lone Star State \u201cstand up\u201d in the fight to protect the border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Claiming the establishment in Washington \u201cdoesn\u2019t like to sign discharge petitions,\u201d Rep. Chip Roy, appearing on the Dana Show with Dana Loesch Wednesday, first suggested that with another six to eight Democrats joining, enough signatures could be garnered to allow for moving a bill on the House floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We&#8217;re being INVADED, and we should treat it as such.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Roy lays out a 3-pronged plan to secure our southern border:<\/p>\n<p>1) Pass his Title 42 discharge petition <br \/>2) Stop funding a govt refusing to do its job <br \/>3) Texas MUST stand up and DEFEND ITSELF<\/p>\n<p>More via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLoesch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DLoesch<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tdD7vTZUjY\">pic.twitter.com\/tdD7vTZUjY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepChipRoy\/status\/1511439987987857411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>In general, \u201cthe Speaker sets the agenda and that means the Speaker decides what comes up on the floor,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, he noted an exception.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cTwo hundred eighteen signatures on a discharge petition to move a bill means we can move a bill on the floor,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we need six, seven, [or] eight Democrats to join us to get up to 218 signatures.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd so the media should ask every Democrat: \u2018Why won\u2019t you sign this discharge petition?\u2019\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Texas Republican also called to stop funding the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[On] September 30, the government funding runs out,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, we\u2019ve got now five and a half months and we should fight and say, \u2018Do not fund a government that refuses to secure the border.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet\u2019s have that fight,\u201d he added, though sensing Republicans would \u201crun away\u201d from the notion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>According to Rep. Roy, a shutdown is most appropriate under current circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cStop funding a government that is not doing its job and that is taking away your [liberty],\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re funding the government that\u2019s targeting DOJ, targeting parents who go to a school board and complain, and you\u2019re funding a DHS that refuses to secure the border.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cDon\u2019t do that,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also suggested Texas \u201cdo more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cGovernor [Greg] Abbott has done a lot in terms of DPS [Department of Public Safety] and there\u2019s $3 billion in funding and we\u2019ve got DPS guys down there helping or building some fence \u2014 that\u2019s all good,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s slow and it\u2019s not for the times.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe times dictate that we need to actually go down there and do our own work as Texans to secure the border,\u201d he added. \u201cUnder the Constitution of the United States, we\u2019re being invaded and we should treat it as such.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Texas congressman described the situation as an \u201cemergency.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur ranches, livestock, people, drugs, cartels, danger\u2026 the body trailers down in South Texas \u2014 we need to stop that and we need to stop it now because we\u2019re being invaded,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting the dangers of cartels and narcotics posed to Texans, Rep. Roy claimed the Constitution allows for the people to \u201cstand up\u201d and do their part to stop the \u201cinvasion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet\u2019s do our part as Texans and say, \u2018No, you\u2019re not coming into Texas, we\u2019re stopping you,\u2019\u201d\u00a0 he said. \u201cThat\u2019s a big statement and I get that that\u2019s big but the times call for it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Texas \u201cneeds to stand up,\u201d he claimed he was \u201ctrying to do what I can [by] moving the Title 42 discharge petition.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m going to pick a funding fight between now and September about funding a government that refuses to secure the border,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Roy\u2019s comments come as the Biden administration plans to end the Title 42 policy that helps border officials regulate the inflow of unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, in a move expected to bring an even larger wave of migrants to the U.S. southern border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>America currently faces record-high levels of illegal immigration, with more than 209,000 migrants <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2022\/04\/01\/ending-title-42-bidens-border-policies-are-unmitigated-disaster-says-texas-governor\/\"><span>apprehended<\/span><\/a><span> after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. in March, the highest number of migrant apprehensions for one month since March 2000 \u2014 the last year of the Clinton administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It also breaks the Biden-era record of 200,658 set in July 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20559746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/pres-joe-biden-build-back-better-oct21-handsup-getty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden gives a speech on his Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and Build Back Better Agenda at the NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex on October 25, 2021, in Kearny, New Jersey. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Last year, President Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/22\/analyst-democrats-suicide-watch-biden-break-illegal-immigration-records\/\"><span>set<\/span><\/a><span> new records for illegal immigration by enticing more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens to take the often deadly journey through Mexico to the nation\u2019s southern border in the hopes of being released into the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Earlier this year, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/26\/report-bidens-dhs-chief-privately-admits-illegal-immigration-is-worse-now-than-ever\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> to have admitted in private that illegal immigration in President Biden\u2019s first year in office is \u201cworse now than \u2026 ever\u201d in American history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/31\/exclusive-rep-mullin-accuses-biden-intentional-border-crisis-making-all-states-border-states\/\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span> President Biden of significantly damaging national security by deliberately creating a border crisis to expand the Democrat voter bloc, as he called for an investigation into the president over his actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Monday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1511000527743725576?s=20&#038;t=3iyGreoOp5v_t0rQ2hs2ow\"><span>warned<\/span><\/a><span> the country was heading toward the \u201cbiggest migration crisis in U.S. history\u201d as a result of Biden administration policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is currently under \u201cinvasion\u201d at its southern border, according to Rep. 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