Chip Roy delivers message to Supreme Court after ruling Biden administration can remove razor wire: ‘Go to hell’
By Eden Villalovas
January 23, 2024 1:11 pmRep. Chip Roy (R-TX) suggested Texas officials should defy a divided Supreme Court’s decision to allow Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire installed by the state on the U.S.-Mexico border.
In defense of the razor wire fence, which was installed to deter immigrants from entering the country, Roy said Texas has a “duty under the Constitution” to defend its border if the federal government fails to do so.
“They have a duty under the Constitution … and every other norm of leadership of any sovereign state, to protect your citizens, period, full stop,” Roy told Fox News on Tuesday. “There is no exception to that. And if the Supreme Court wants to ignore that truth, which a slim majority did, Texas still had the duty, Texas leaders still have the duty, to defend their people.
“It’s like, if someone’s breaking into your house, and the court says, ‘Oh, sorry, you can’t defend yourself,’ what do you tell the court?” Roy added. “You tell the court to go to hell, you defend yourself, and then figure it out later.”
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