Rep. Chip Roy calls for immigration freeze, citing Sharia law concerns
A Texas Republican congressman is introducing a bill to freeze all immigration in the United States until there’s a total overhaul of how the country handles both legal and illegal immigration. Rep. Chip Roy said he is introducing the Pause Act, as the country deals with a “cultural problem about who we are as Americans.”
“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 wants 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,” Roy said on “The Benny Show” when he announced that he’ll be introducing the legislation within the next week.
Roy said he wants to end or revamp H-1B visas, chain migration, birthright citizenship and Plyler v. Doe, although that appears to be a non-exhaustive list.
Roy stated that he was motivated in part by what he perceives to be an advancement of Islamism and Sharia law in his home state of Texas.
“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,” Roy said.
Roy said his bill will also vet people for their adherence to Sharia law.
“Why are we importing any human being that is adherent to Sharia law, which is totally contrary to the Constitution and our values in Western civilization?” Roy said.
Immigration advocates doubt the proposed Pause Act would help lead to meaningful, positive changes in the system.
“That type of legislation would decrease the number of both low-skilled and high-skilled immigrants to the United States, with negative consequences for the U.S. economy,” Georgetown economics professor Anna Maria Mayda told Newsweek. “Such a decline of immigrants will likely reduce U.S. GDP and per capita average income for U.S. citizens.”
H-1B visas
The H-1B visa program allows employers to hire foreign workers with highly specialized knowledge for specialty occupations. It’s designed to help employers fill jobs when they struggle to find Americans with the necessary skills and abilities. The visa typically lasts three years and can be extended for an additional three years, for a total of six years.
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The United States grants approximately 85,000 H-1B visas per year, 20,000 of which are reserved for those with masters degrees.
Roy and other conservatives say they want to end the program.
H-1B visas were recently pushed to the forefront of national conversation after President Donald Trump said in a Fox News interview that they are necessary because America lacks people with certain talents. That comment received blowback from allies and opponents alike.
Meanwhile, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., just announced a bill to eliminate H-1B visas entirely. She said in her announcement, “Americans are the most talented people in the world.”
“My bill will also restore the original intent of the visa, for it to be temporary. These visas were intended to fulfill a specialty occupational need at a given time. People should not be allowed to come and live here forever,” Greene said.
Chain migration
Chain migration enables green card holders and citizens to sponsor family members to come to the United States. Lawful permanent residents can sponsor spouses and unmarried children to come to the United States, who in turn can sponsor family members of their own.
Birthright citizenship
The 14th Amendment guarantees that all people born in the United States are citizens. Roy and other conservatives argue that it is being abused and incentivizes illegal immigration and “birth tourism.”
House Republicans introduced the Birthright Citizenship Act, which would change who is entitled to citizenship to the children of a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent residents residing in the United States and those with lawful immigration status who are serving in the U.S. military.
Plyler v. Doe
The 1982 Supreme Court decision prohibited states from preventing the children of immigrants in the country illegally from attending public schools. The ruling was the result of a class action lawsuit against a Texas law that prohibited state funds from being used to educate children in the country illegally.
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