'Pause all immigration': US Rep Chip Roy asked to stop until 'broken H-1B system revamped'

United States Republican Representative Chip Roy on Saturday asked to "pause immigration" until the H-1B system is revamped.

While speaking in the Senate, Roy recalled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's statement in the House committee and said that the Senate had not passed the "Pausing All Admissions Until Security Ensured (PAUSE) Act," which he presented in November.

"Let's just pause all immigration. We can allow tourist visas so long as we enforce visa overstays, but we shouldn't reopen the spigots on immigration until we have revamped our badly broken H1B system. Until we've revamped the entire visa system. Until we vet people for Sharia law or adherence to values inconsistent with ours. Until we fix Plyler veto a wrong headed Supreme Court opinion saying that we have to allow illegal aliens to be able to get educated here. Until we fix our broken immigration system which the next Democrat regime will exploit," Roy said.



"As Secretary Noem testified to yesterday in the House committee that that would assuredly occur if we do not codify changes to asylum, codify changes to parole, codify changes to catch and release. That it will happen. And we haven't done it. By the way, the House hasn't even passed it this Congress. Why? Why haven't we passed it and sent it over to the Senate? Well, the Senate won't pass it. Well we're hearing that about the Save America act too right now. But why don't we just put more pressure on the Senate to do its job?" he added.




In November, last year, Roy introduced the Pausing All Admissions Until Security Ensured (PAUSE) Act. This legislation would freeze all immigration to the US, except for temporary tourist visas, until certain conditions are met to ensure our immigration system is working on behalf of the American people.

"The problem isn’t just illegal immigration; it’s also legal immigration. While the Biden administration opened our borders and allowed millions to flood into our country, they also rubber-stamped millions more arriving through convoluted legal schemes, completely overwhelming the system," Roy said in November while representing the legislation.