Chip Roy
Role at the time: U.S. Representative from Texas (R), in a post on X
Statement summary
In a post on X, Rep. Chip Roy wrote that “we were told” the shooter is a foreign national, an illegal alien from Venezuela with a final order of removal, and that the war is the one being waged against Americans through mass legal and illegal immigration.
“We were told the shooter is a foreign national, an illegal alien from Venezuela with a final order of removal. The war is the one being waged against Americans through mass legal & illegal immigration.”
Rep. Roy's post on X, which quotes another user's post about Rep. Casar's remarks. The post calls the Venezuelan man “the shooter”; his own attribution is “We were told.”
Why we used this label
Relative to DHS's public account of the shooting, Roy repeats DHS's description of the man's status as the account he was given and frames the episode as part of a wider conflict over immigration; he does not question it or call for an independent investigation. Borderline: the post is attributed (“We were told”), quotes another user's post about Rep. Casar, and calls the Venezuelan man “the shooter”. Closest competing label: “Challenged the characterization” loses because he adopts, rather than disputes, DHS's description.