GOP Congressman Challenges Biden AG Over Handling Of Preventable Killings

ANALYSIS – It's not about money. It's about Biden ignoring the law! During tense questioning at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Texas Congressman Chip Roy slammed Joe Biden's Attorney General (AG), Merrick Garland, Tuesday over illegal immigrants murdering Americans.

He also berated the AG over the lawsuits Biden's Department of Justice has filed against the state of Texas for simply trying to protect its citizens from the foreign invasion Biden has deliberately enabled. (RELATED: Jordan Demands Answers From Lead Prosecutor In Documents Case)

In an effort to secure its border with Mexico and an invasion of illegal foreigners, Texas has chosen to pass its own laws against foreigners, as well as bussing them to Democratic-led cities to relieve overwhelmed border towns.

Garland was testifying before the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee during the panel's annual oversight hearing when he was asked about the legal war being waged against the Lone Star state.

Texas Senate Bill 4 allows state and local law enforcement to arrest illegal aliens and impose various penalties for being in the country unlawfully, and for judges to order them deported, but Team Biden is arguing the law is unconstitutional and is suing Texas to make it revoke it.

During the exchange the House Republican brought up several Americans recently killed by illegal aliens. (RELATED: Trump's Plan To Quickly Address Biden's Border Crisis)

There's a number of people here that I want to see if you can identify who they are,” Roy said. “What we have here in the bottom corner is a woman named Lizbeth Medina. She was found dead in a bathtub in Texas. Her mom found her, hoping to see her in a parade that night. She was killed by Rafael Romero, who was here illegally. On the bottom left, you have Laken Riley. She was killed by 26-year-old Jose Ibarra, arrested by U.S. customs and border protection after he unlawfully entered the United States near El Paso, Texas.

Up above, you have officers Richard Yarusso, 26 and officer Christopher Abreu, 26. Both were shot this last weekend by Bernardo Raul Castro Mato, a 19-year-old Venezuelan national apprehended by U.S. border patrol after he unlawfully entered the United States near Eagle Pass in July of 2023.

Ibarra had an extensive criminal record and got arrested soon after the discovery of Riley's body on the University of Georgia campus following a mid-afternoon run.

What we have is a continued effort by the federal government to fail to secure the border of the United States, and Americans are dying or getting shot. In this case, law enforcement getting shot. Two young women who are dead. My question for you with respect to the department is, do you believe that Texas has a right to defend itself and to ensure that people who are in this country are not here illegally and that we can protect the citizens of Texas from people unlawfully here who are committing crimes …. Do you say that Texas does not have a right to defend itself and to protect our citizens from murder by people who have come here illegally into the United States?

When Garland answered with faux remorse over the murders and tried to spin the White House talking point of the fault lying with Congress for not providing more funding to the Border Patrol, Roy quickly shot back, rightfully noting that it wasn't a funding issue, it was Biden's policies and his not enforcing the laws as written. (RELATED: Biden Classified Documents Scandal Blows Open Again After 9 Mystery Boxes Discovered)

Roy said:

Mr. Attorney general, no, no … Money's not going to solve the problem when the Department of Homeland Security and the President of the United States refuse to enforce the law, ignore the policies.

And Lizbeth Medina would be here alive today if we were following the law. Laken Riley would be here today if we had not released a killer onto the streets in United States of America through parole policies that this administration is advancing.

And the Department of Justice is suing the state of Texas in court, taking valuable resources, to go against the people of Texas when Texas simply wants to say that we should have a say in stopping people who are illegally, arrest them and be able to deal with that on our own terms when the federal government refuses to do its job.

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