Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, warns that the United States will become a third world nation if the federal government does not enforce its immigration laws. Speaking to “The Sean Hannity Show,” the Republican lawmaker said the country will be destroyed if the U.S. continues to allow thousands of immigrants to cross the border illegally. “You’ve got to follow the law. You cannot bring hundreds of thousands of people in this country without destroying the country,” Gohmert told Hannity. “Then there...
Read more
U.S. Representatives Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Bill Flores (R-Texas) have introduced legislation that provides incentives to find former IRS director Lois Lerner’s missing emails. "It seems that each time the IRS has evidence that will either prove with certainty its guilt or innocence, the evidence disappears which both common sense and the law indicate the evidence such as emails must have proved the IRS’s impropriety if not outright crimes. It is time the IRS either comes clean, or has a sp...
Read more
A young illegal immigrant child from Central America was diagnosed with swine flu Friday after crossing the Texas-Mexico border, necessitating 2,000 vaccines be shipped to Lackland Air Force Base to treat people who may have been exposed, U.S. authorities confirmed to TheBlaze. Health and Human Services spokesman Kenneth Wolfe told TheBlaze, Wednesday that the child being housed at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, was recently hospitalized and diagnosed with H1N1. “The child is responding...
Read more
MCALLEN, Texas—Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) witnessed the capture of nearly fifty illegal immigrants during a visit to the Texas border crisis region. Breitbart Texas toured the Rio Grande River border area with the Congressman and observed the U.S. Border Patrol's intake process and shot the exclusive photos embedded below of the capture of the women and children crossing the border. As the sun began to set in South Texas, Gohmert met with agents of the border patrol just east of the Anzald...
Read more
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) along with Reps. Bill Flores (R-TX) and Mike Pompeo (R-KS), filed the House companion measure to Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) bill to prohibit Guantanamo transfers. If passed, this bill would temporarily halt further transfers or releases for detainees at Guantanamo Bay until the Obama Administration can justify the benefits of this prisoner exchange. “The release of the five dangerous Taliban leaders by the Obama Administration is truly outrageous. Time and time again this a...
Read more
Rep. Louie Gohmert says he’ll never forget the grief-stricken Nigerian mothers whose daughters were snatched away from the confines of their boarding school by Boko Haram Islamic militants. The Texas Republican traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, last week to meet with some of the mothers and several young survivors who managed to escape the heavily armed militia camp after they and hundreds of their peers were abducted. Gohmert said Boko Haram has told the mothers and other villagers that the rest of t...
Read more
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement in memory the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion: “Today we remember those who lost their lives taking the fight to the enemies of liberty by retaking the coastal areas of France. Young Americans, most of whom were teenagers, gave their last full measure of devotion on the battlefield 70 years ago today. They were fighting for the United States, they were fighting for us - present and future Americans along with all who yearn to liv...
Read more
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement on the Obama Administration’s decision to mandate a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions at fossil fuel-burning power plants by 2030: “President Obama’s plan to combat global warming is a actually a plan that will ultimately shut down power plants and cause air conditioning bills to 'necessarily skyrocket' as he promised when he was a candidate. Unfortunately, that appears to be one of the few campaign promises he has kept. At a time when...
Read more
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement on the Palestinian unity government of Fatah and Hamas: "The Palestinian unity of both the Fatah and Hamas governments is more than troubling; it has very deadly implications for any Israeli who simply wants to live in peace. This unity of these two Palestinian rival groups will eliminate a distraction from the hatred of Israelis and the desire to wipe them off the globe. When two groups would love to see genocide of the Jewish people, ...
Read more
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson departed from his predecessor's dismissive stance about a potential breach of classified information to a man with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, saying it's “problematic.” “I agree that unauthorized exposures of government information is problematic,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) asked Johnson if he thought it was a serious matter when someone on the Homeland Security Advisory Council used a secret clea...
Read more
