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Chip Roy on skipping GOP border visit: Republicans need to 'put up or shut up'
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, spoke out Tuesday on why he decided to skip an upcoming congressional delegation to the Mexican border in his state, telling Fox News it is time for more significant actions.
Roy, however, praised House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who is organizing the visit, giving the new leader high marks in his first several weeks with the gavel.
“I want to give a strong shout-out to Speaker Johnson for his leadership. I’m totally happy with him taking members of the Republican delegation down to the border,” Roy said on “The Story.”
“If they don’t know what’s actually happening at the border after watching all of [Fox News national correspondent] Bill Melugin’s great reporting, or if they don’t understand the depth of the crisis, it’d be great for them to hear from the ranchers, from the sheriffs, from the local law enforcement, from the Border Patrol that I talk to on a daily and weekly basis.”
Dec. 18, 2023: Migrants flood into Eagle Pass, Texas, waiting to be processed. (Fox News)
Johnson will host about 60 Republican federal lawmakers Wednesday at the border, reportedly including House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green of Tennessee, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania.
In a statement announcing his decision to join Johnson, Thompson said Republicans have put forth solutions to the border crisis that President Biden has “failed to address” and that the border officials they plan to meet with have been “sidelined” by “failed policies.”
On Fox News, Roy said he has regularly been visiting the border and meeting with officials for four years, and that it is now time to pivot to delivering on obligations from voters who put the GOP in charge of the House.
“We delivered last spring when we came together and we passed H.R. 2, which most people who are objective about it would tell you would actually solve the problem and actually do what needs to be done to honor our laws and secure the border,” he said, adding that more drastic measures might need to be taken.
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“I was on a phone call this morning with sheriffs and Border Patrol coalition folks and ranchers… And they said to me, ‘Congressman Roy, you know, we’ve got to shut down the border or yes, you should shut down the government.’ That’s the way people feel about it.”
He said the crisis will become even more unsustainable if nothing is done until a potential Biden successor takes office in 2025.
“We can’t take this anymore. Texas has spent $12 billion, so it’s time for the Congress to do their homework,” he said.
Roy later said he has heard comments from other lawmakers, including Republicans, that America is a “nation of immigrants,” adding they are correct in that nearly 50 million Americans are foreign-born.
“That puts us at about 15% of the population, which is as high as it’s ever been in our history. Of those folks, they’ve got about 16 to 20 million kids. We’re not teaching our kids Western civilization. We’re not teaching our kids to believe in the Constitution and believe in America. We are not actually forming a capitalistic system where people are coming here for hard work,” Roy warned.
“We’re building up a socialist system with a big safety net that is about to break, and all of us who are working hard and the hard-working people out there, they’re going to lose what they inherited from their ancestors in this great country.”
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“So we’ve got to stop this. It is Republicans’ job to put up or shut up,” Roy continued, adding that constituents have asked him why Congress would continue to fund a Homeland Security department that is harming the people of Texas with their lax policies.
“That’s the question on the table.”
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A man armed with a knife was shot by L.A. police officers responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call overnight, authorities said.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers with the Hollenbeck Division responded to an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Glenn Avenue in Boyle Heights at 1:45 a.m. Saturday after callers reported a male suspect was armed with a knife and had just assaulted someone in the complex.
Arriving officers found the suspect in front of the residence, but he did not comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon. He then advanced toward the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred, LAPD confirmed.
“The suspect was struck by gunfire and remained non-compliant,” the LAPD Public Information Officer said on X early Saturday morning. “Officers deployed a 40mm foam round and ultimately took the suspect into custody.”
Video obtained by KTLA shows the man being loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital; officials said he was transported in stable condition, adding that his knife was recovered at the scene and booked as evidence.
No officers or community members were injured during the incident. The man’s name was not released.
Dangerous rip currents and high surf are forecast for Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu Coast this weekend.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach statement, warning of the potentially deadly beach conditions. The dangerous conditions are forecast to last from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
“There is an increased risk of ocean drowning,” the NWS forecast reads. “Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.”
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A guide to surviving rip currents from the National Weather Service (NWS)
Minor Beach erosion and coastal flooding is possible through the weekend. The flooding is most likely to occur during evening high tides from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Beachgoers are advised to stay out of the water and remain near lifeguard towers. Jetties and tidepools are also especially dangerous during the weekend forecast.
“Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks,” the NWS forecast reads.
Similar hazardous beach conditions are also in the forecast for Santa Barbara County. A high surf advisory is also in effect for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties this weekend, where 10 to 15-foot waves will be possible.
If you live or want to live in Los Angeles, the city controller has released a new dashboard highlighting some of the city’s most notorious problem rental properties, a tool designed to help renters avoid future headaches.
“This project comes at a time when tenants are reporting harassment and illegal evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance and Tenant Anti‑Harassment Ordinance, but very few of the complaints end up leading to strong enforcement or real accountability,” L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia said in a media release Thursday.
The new Top 100 Problem Rental Properties dashboard includes a searchable database of all residential addresses with reported housing violation cases within the city of Los Angeles, a ranked list of the 100 addresses with the most violations and an interactive map.
“There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address,” Mejia said in the release.
Data for the dashboard was compiled from multiple sources, including the Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles City Planning and the L.A. County Assessor’s Office, according to the controller’s office.
The release also identified the top three addresses with the highest number of reported housing violations:
1. 636 1/2 North Hill Place, Chinatown
192 housing violation cases
2. 11700 West Wilshire Boulevard, Sawtelle
166 housing violation cases
3. 6650 West Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills
113 housing violation cases
“Our new dashboard is an easy‑to‑understand public tool that we hope will help renters and organizers document patterns of harm, as well as put pressure on both landlords and the City to act,” Mejia said. “Everyone deserves safe, stable and dignified housing.”
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