Roger Williams - U.S. Representative, R-Willow Fork Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, we're looking for a little payback. Seven twenty two
is their time here on Houston's Morning News. All right,
we spent a lot of money on Operation Loan Star
and the reason why we had Operation Loan Stars because
the federal government wouldn't do their job. So it's only
fair now that we have a president who is doing
that job to get reinbursed for the time we had
to do the job. If you follow my drift here,
US Representative Roger Williams from Texas has introduced a bill

(00:25):
which would reinburse the Lone Star State. He's here with
us on Houston's Morning News. Thanks for coming on, sir.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Good morning, Good to be with you, Good to have you.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
So is this something that President Trump could do through
executive order or because it involves money, is this something
that has to pass through Congress so the money can
be allocated.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, it needs to go through Congress. As you said,
we dropped the bill two days ago to get eleven
point one billion dollars back to Texans in the state
of Texas that we spent because the federal government was
not interested in secure in the border.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's a lot of money. Eleven point one billion dollars.
Do you think there's i''m sure there's support with Republicans
and maybe that's all you need. Do you think there's
enough unanimous support among Republicans that we're going to get
the payback?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, I think there is. I mean, you know, now
there might be some that want money for their state,
but the fact is Texas, Texas went out first. Texas
has spent more money than anybody. I don't know that
it's you know, to me, it's a it's a loan
that we loan the federal government. We need to get
it paid back. It's not so much a reimbursement, it's
paying back alone. We advance money to the federal government
because they wouldn't do it. So we do have a
lot of support behind it, and we'll just see what happens.

(01:32):
That's how things work up in Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Of course, or don't work, as the case may be.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Right, So is this something that would be standalone or
is this something that you would look to tag into
perhaps the new budget or whatever else is being worked
on right now in Congress.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, it's probably going to be a standalone. A governor
abbit totally supports it, as with him, the other night,
and he made mention of it. Of course, you know, yesterday,
as you saw, we got the budget out, so it
probably be a standalone and I think it's got a
great chance of of getting through and getting the Presidence desk.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
You know, as long as I got you, let me
ask your opinion on something here. The Dallas Police Department
has come out basically and said they are not going
to support ICE raids. They're not going to participate or
be helpful for ICE raids. The governor is not very
happy about that. I'm guessing you're probably not very happy
about that. So even in the lone Star state, where
we pride ourselves on being pretty tough and illegal immigration,

(02:25):
we have places that are not so tough. They're not
being cooperative with the federal government.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Now, well, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable that we don't want
to We want to take care of the people are
doing bad things, and if you're here illegally, you're breaking
the law. It's as simple as that. And the cities
of course need to they need to respond to cord
ly and work with us. But I think you know,
ICE is going to do their thing anyway. We've got
twenty million people in this country. We don't know who

(02:50):
they are, what they are, and what their message is.
And here, if you break the law, you need to
pay for the law. Especially in Texas. It's always been
our motto and we need to stick.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
With it, you know. And I don't think we're really
asking that much of these police departments. But what we're
really asking them to do is that if they have
apprehended an illegal alien, especially one that has committed a crime,
that they notify Ice and wait and hold them in
custody until Ice can come and pick them up. And
for some of these quote unquote, even though we are
not a sanctuary state, would I would consider Dallas and

(03:20):
Terence County to be sanctuary cities in a sanctuary county
at least that's how they behave. Is there any sort
of federal recourse that can be brought against, you know,
these municipalities who decide not to cooperate. Is there anything
that we can do at the federal or the state level?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well? I think there is. I mean, home and talks
about basically going in and doing what his job is
to do. So, I mean the bottom line is, why
do we want to promote bad behavior. You know, that's
not the spirit of Texas. If you break the law,
you need to pay. And if you're in law enforcement,
that's what you signed up for, is to protect the

(03:58):
protect the law, protect law body sixties.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Nice sir, thanks free time, appreciate it. That is United
States Representative Roger Williams at seven twenty six