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Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) has proposed a bill that would institute a temporary complete halt to all immigration—part of an ongoing effort by conservatives to stop both legal and illegal mass migration that has plagued the U.S. for years.
Roy’s bill would pause all immigration until Congress takes major action on several fronts, primarily ending chain migration and birthright citizenship, as well as abolishing H-1B visas, which have been at the center of recent immigration debates.
William Gheen, founder and president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), says the idea behind Rep. Roy’s bill has merit. “The vast majority of ALIPAC supporters want to see legal immigration levels greatly reduced to more traditional, sustainable levels—like we used to have,” he said.
Gheen did warn, however, that there are major risks when pushing any new immigration legislation. “Every multifaceted immigration bill that we’ve seen has contained some form of amnesty—or had some form of amnesty slipped into it,” he explained.
Essentially, any time a new bill is proposed—even one that sounds good—there’s a fear that it could be co-opted at the last second and used as a Trojan horse for mass amnesty.
That’s why Gheen suggests simply using existing U.S. law to crack down on—and even completely pause—mass migration into the United States. “The best thing for us would be for the Trump administration to continue using the full force of all American laws to reduce legal immigration levels, to the point where maybe in 10 years from now we can crawl out of this globalist death trap,” he said.