Rep. Chip Roy calls for immigration freeze, citing Sharia law concerns

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00:00A Texas Republican congressman is calling for a freeze on all immigration into the United

00:05States until the country overhauls how we handle both legal and illegal immigration.

00:10What I would point out here is that we're dealing with a cultural problem about who

00:15we are as Americans.

00:18Congressman Chip Roy says the PAWS Act is necessary because of what he calls a mass

00:23foreign-born population and a decline in quality of life and opportunities for Americans.

00:29The people we're importing are often the ones that are churning babies.

00:34Our core Americans who inherited this country aren't having babies, and now we have a demographics

00:41problem and we have a cultural problem.

00:44This is a non-exhaustive list, but Roy said he wants to either end or revamp H-1B visas,

00:50which allow companies to hire foreigners with specialized skills to fill technical jobs,

00:55birthright citizenship, chain migration, which allows citizens and lawful permanent residents

01:00to sponsor family members to come to the United States, and Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court

01:05ruling that requires states to allow the children of illegal immigrants to attend public schools.

01:10So why does Roy want to do this?

01:12Well, to put it in his words, he says he's noticed an advancement of Islamism and Sharia

01:17law in his home state of Texas.

01:19We're dealing with a massive problem of the advancement of Sharia law. We're dealing with

01:24a mass community that is growing up that have no desire to assimilate and come here to become

01:31American and embrace Western civilization, embrace our constitution, embrace our values.

01:36Roy's bill will not become law because it won't get 60 votes in the Senate, but it does represent

01:41a larger trend throughout the conservative movement. Republican lawmakers have introduced bills to end H-1B

01:47and change birthright citizenship so that it only applies to the children of U.S. citizens and

01:52permanent residents. I'm Ray Bogan for Straight Hour News. For more unbiased reporting straight from

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