Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Newsmax that Americans need to wake up to the "Cold War" being fought every day to save the nation.
Roy told Newsmax's "National Report" on Wednesday that "foreign-born invaders" are working their way into positions of influence to destroy the country. "We've got a massive problem with people who have been coming to the United States, exploiting our laws, taking advantage of our goodwill, and frankly, wide open borders with illegal immigration."
Roy said the combination of factors also involves "legal immigration, that we've been allowing the Chamber of Commerce to hoodwink the American people into believing that having rampant immigration was going to be good for the future of our country."
Roy said even now, some members of Congress are just waking up to reality. "And now we're paying the piper," he said. "We've got to deal with this."
The Texas Republican said he introduced legislation to help curb what he described as attacks from within. "I introduced legislation last year to say that if you're advancing, for example, Sharia law, contrary to the 14th Amendment and to our Constitution, or if you're advancing a Marxist-Socialist agenda, you can be denaturalized."
Roy said the protections should go further. "I believe we should require you to have been a natural-born citizen to hold federal office. Not just the presidency, but the Senate and Congress as well."
He said the problem has reached a crisis point. "There's a lot of things we need to do to send a message, we're not going to let the world come here and take over our country in a basically Cold War that is attacking the United States and Western civilization."
Roy said the issue of many people he believes are involved in the conflict being accepted as emerging leaders in the Democratic Party is secondary to the bigger picture.
"There is a concerted effort to uproot our Judeo-Christian principles," Roy said. "To destroy America as a Judeo-Christian nation, replace it as an Islamic state, and this is something that is actively going on. Imams will state it publicly."
He pointed to evidence of the ongoing battle, saying, "The Muslim Brotherhood's memorandum lays it out. The advancement of Islam into Texas is a good example of what's happening. And so, we've got to take seriously that a war is being waged against us."
Roy added that without recognizing the issue, it can't be addressed. "You can't win a war you don't acknowledge exists," he said, "So let's recognize the rhetoric. Let's recognize what's happened and let's act accordingly. Freeze immigration. Stop importing people who want to kill our way of life."
On Tuesday, Roy used a separate appearance on Newsmax to call for a total halt to immigration into the United States. He said that, in light of Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling in the birthright citizenship case Tuesday, Congress should ensure no one enters the United States.
"Certainly, no one who's pregnant," he said.
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