Rep. Chip Roy: Colorado ICE Center Protests 'Offensive'

Rep. Chip Roy said Monday he was angered when he found out that protesters pulled down an American flag at an immigration detention center in suburban Denver over the weekend, defaced another flag, and put up a Mexican flag over the facility. 

"I was out there at the Western Conservative Summit with some of my colleagues," the Texas Republican told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "I visited family who lived near Aurora (and) saw the horrible news. I felt like I needed to get over there and see for myself what was at the facility."

During the protests, some removed the U.S. flag and another from Colorado, along with a special flag honoring law enforcement. The U.S. flag was replaced on the pole with the Mexican flag, and the others were replaced with flags bearing anti-police messages. 

Roy said he toured the facility and found a clean place with "medical facilities, ping-pong tables, 1,200 individuals from 57 countries around the world."

He added that the protesters' actions were "offensive," but he was proud to see people arriving through the day to drop off American flags. 

"It is lack of funding for ICE, the leftist radicals in Congress, Democrats refuse to give funding to ICE, who are causing the very problem they decry at the border," said Roy. "It is offensive for them to support people that would do this to our law enforcement community."

Meanwhile, he said President Donald Trump is "right to take" on "radical left colleagues" like New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others he targeted through Twitter. 

"We make sure the American people know that is the face of the Democratic Party," said Roy. "That is who needs to be sent home in 2020." 

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