Rep. Chip Roy wants Congress to impose Trump immigration policy

 Washington Examiner:

Rep. Chip Roy is circulating a letter among his Republican colleagues trying to garner support for forcing a House vote to reinstate certain Trump-era immigration policies, the Washington Examiner has learned.

In a letter to his fellow Republicans, the Texas lawmaker said the conference “should stand together to thwart the Biden administration’s attack on our southern border” by forcing votes on a bill that would require enforcement of Title 42, an emergency public health order allowing officials to turn away migrants at the borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Roy is also pushing for support on a bill that would reinstate the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, which requires some migrants to stay in Mexico while awaiting the resolution of their asylum cases in the United States.

Neither of Roy's discharge petitions has received the requisite 218 signatures for the petitions that allow a minority party to force a vote in the House. As of press time, the Title 42 petition had garnered 195 signatures, while the Migrant Protection Protocols petition had garnered 133.

The House has 221 Democratic members to 213 Republicans, with one vacancy.

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Roy took aim at his Republican colleagues who have not signed the petitions.

“That's the question that I want to ask all my colleagues: What in the hell precisely are you actually doing to try to secure the border?” he said.

Roy argued it is “absolutely mind-boggling that the Republicans didn't just say, 'Well, yeah, let's all sign a discharge petition to force a vote on Title 42,' and then immediately start putting pressure on so-called moderate Democrats to say, 'Why aren't you doing it?'"

“Because all we need is 218 signatures,” he said. “So, we need five more signatures. So, then, we go to the office of every Democrat who are now going to be in tough primaries and say, ‘Hey, why aren't you signing a discharge petition to make sure that our borders are secure?’”

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They should be making it clear to Democrats that this will be an issue in the 2022 election.  It is an issue with voters where about 80% oppose Biden's immigration policies.  It is one of those issues that probably play into the fact that several Democrats are not running for reelection.   

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