Speaking during a podcast interview with Benny Johnson, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that he had introduced a bill that would totally cut off immigration into America until major changes are made that fix problems like chain migration, birthright citizenship, and the now-infamous H-1B visa.
As background, the immigration issue has returned with a vengeance as Americans grow increasingly frustrated with just how many H-1B and other immigrants that major companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have brought into the country to do work that Americans would do.
In any case, Benny began the conversation by pointing to a post of Charlie Kirk’s in which the slain conservative political figure noted that mass deportations would fix many issues with jobs and housing prices. Benny said, “The dream of home ownership and a functional society has collapsed in one generation since the greatest generation in World War Two, and it’s something that we got to fix. Charlie’s solution, obviously, is mass deportations and ending H-1B scams, among other things. What’s your take on this congressman?”
Responding, Rep. Roy pointed to the massive immigration problems that Texas has had, saying, “As you know, in Texas, we’ve been dealing with the brunt of the illegal immigration, yes, influence, but now we’re seeing, I think the ramifications of the H-1B system and how it has been abused, in addition to chain migration and diversity visas, which we’ve been trying to fix for a long time, and we’ve been unable to do so.”
Continuing, he noted that the feckless Republicans had dropped the ball in Trump’s first term and let the problem radically escalate out of control, saying, “You’ll remember back in 2018 with the various bills that were being debated in President Trump’s first term, and we were unable to get that resolved as Republicans, and it left it both broken with respect to the illegal immigration system. We didn’t get the wall fully built. We didn’t get fixes to all of the asylum problems and the abuse of parole and the catch and release, but we also didn’t address ending the chain migration diversity visas. We had language to do it. We just couldn’t get the votes.”
Noting that the GOP’s failure in that regard has created massive problems for his home state, Rep. Roy added, “So now what are we dealing with in Texas? We’re dealing with a massive Islamism problem. We’re dealing with a massive problem of the advancement of Sharia law. We’re dealing with a mass community that is growing up, that have no desire to assimilate and come here to become American and embrace Western civilization, embrace our Constitution, embrace our values. We have allowed the corporatists to define our entire national policy.”
He added that, as Charlie Kirk’s post noted, Americans should be able to do what their ancestors were able to do, and that mass deportations might help with that. He said, “You should be able to own a home. You should be able to have Americans getting jobs. And the mass deportation is correct.”
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Explaining why mass deportations are so necessary, Rep. Roy noted that America is packed full of people who were born elsewhere, saying, “Going back a couple of years ago, I was noting 51 million people in this country are foreign-born. That’s something like 16 or 17% of the population. Now, that is higher than it’s ever been. That is higher than it was in the early 20th century, right when we had the massive wave coming in. We’ve got a mass foreign-born population.”
Then, after further explaining just how bad mass migration has been for Texas and America, Rep. Roy revealed that he is pushing forward a bill that would take a massive hammer to the immigration regime. He said, “I’ve got a bill that I’m going to be introducing this week or next. We’ve had to wait because of the shutdown nonsense. That is a freeze on all immigration, freeze it until we achieve certain objectives, reforming things like chain migration and diversity and H-1B, you know, ending H-1B getting birthright citizenship, dealt with.”
He added, “But I’m going to introduce a bill. As a framework to say, why don’t we just freeze immigration entirely, until we sort this crap out, until we figure out who’s here, why they’re here. How many Chinese Communists, how many people who are Islamists who want to remake America? How many people that are living on the public dole, that are living on welfare, that are going into the emergency room to get care, that are in our education system getting taxpayer funded education because the Supreme Court declared it. So let’s pause all that. And that’ll actually be the name of the bill, the Pause Act.”
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