DREAMer Deal Should Come After Border Security, Deportations, Include Other Fixes Like Asylum Fix

In an interview with CBS News on Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) responded to President-elect Donald Trump's openness to a Dreamer deal, saying that securing the border and deporting people comes first. and then said, “We will do that.'' Then talk about what we're doing. But policy reforms are also needed. If we're going to have a conversation about this, fix asylum, fix parole, fix unaccompanied children, fix the fact that we have catch and release, and do what we need to do to set policy. Core elements of HR 2 will be required. These are changes that will ensure that no future president ever exploits our country as Joe Biden has done over the past four years. ”

Roy said, “Well, President Trump has every right to talk about how he's going to get through all of this and how he's going to do what he told the American people he was going to do, and that is make the border secure.'' President Biden and his administration have dealt with the absolute disaster that they have left the American people behind, the abuse and misuse of parole and asylum powers that have resulted in 5.5 billion people being thrown into America, Americans dying…We got it done. To make it happen. President Trump is looking for resources, and the House and Senate should give President Trump the resources to start removing these people and secure America's borders, and then we'll talk about what to do going forward. I can do that. ”

He added: “Our job right now is to secure our borders, to manage the fact that we have all these people released into the United States, including criminals, and we have over 1.4 million people under deportation orders. It's about managing the fact that there are people,” he added. . … So the first thing we're going to do is secure the border, Tom Homan is going to do that job, we're going to remove people, and we're going to talk about what we're going to do. But policy reforms are also needed. If we're going to have a conversation about this, fix asylum, fix parole, fix unaccompanied children, fix the fact that we have catch and release, and do what we need to do to set policy. Core elements of HR 2 will be required. These are changes that will ensure that no future president ever exploits our country as Joe Biden has done over the past four years. ”