Rep. Chip Roy (R) of Texas said at a January 14 meeting in Washington, D.C., that the public must pressure Republican politicians to fulfill their campaign promises on migration, or Congressman said he would listen to donors and lobbyists.
“This is my big bet. [for 2025] …Republicans are going to pander to America's big corporations and K Street lobbyists for cheaper labor and tax cuts while American workers are being screwed over – until people stand up and change things. If you don't, that's what will happen. ” Roy said Conference sponsored by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
Roy has worked at the Capitol since 2003, first as a Senate staffer. He was sworn into the House of Representatives in 2019 and has since taken a leading role on immigration policy. Over the past 20 years, he has been given an inside look at the money-driven politics of the federal government.
“We haven't fully addressed this issue,” Roy said.
“If we were to try to reverse the damage done by, say, four years of the Trump administration, what are the chances that we would be able to do that?” he asked the audience, adding:
What are the chances that we'll actually get rid of all the people that people say we're going to get rid of?I have a lot of faith in Tom Homan. He is a good friend. I have a lot of faith in Stephen Miller. I have a lot of confidence in the president. [who has] Motivation, a desire to undo the damage of the Biden administration. But would anyone go to Las Vegas and bet on whether they would eliminate half the people who came here? 20 percent? Why not bet your life savings on eliminating even 20 percent of the people who came here illegally?
“You'd be very surprised that the average Republican's willpower is strong enough to do that,” he said after the event.
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The reality of hardline politics, Roy said, is that “our culture is being distorted as corporate interests seek cheap labor at the expense of American labor.” Ta.
He continued:
Open borders are being ignored, while Republicans are out and campaigning to secure them. [they] Never fully protect them. Also, never undo the damage caused by the fact that you weren't protected in the first place. That's the truth.
How do we know this? Well, in 2006 and [200]7. When I was there [Senate] The Judiciary Committee dealt with all these amnesty bills, which were the actual bills, and addressed those issues. Then fast forward to 2012. [20]13 in “Gang of Eight” [amnesty bill] …Fast forward to Goodlatte’s 2017 and we haven’t addressed the problem at all.
And this is the problem, right? Even though we are talking about all the illegal numbers, we still admit about 3 million people into our country legally every year. 1 million green cards, nearly 1 million guest workers, and nearly 1 million international students each year. 3 million! We have hosted more people than all the countries of the world combined.
Annual legal immigration, excluding illegal immigrants, equates to nearly one permanent or temporary immigrant for every approximately 3.6 million Americans born each year.
This annual influx includes about 800,000 foreign graduates who fill the white-collar jobs sought by U.S. graduates. For example, the federal government has forced companies and their foreign recruiters to hire approximately 120,000 H-1B contract workers for jobs that would otherwise go to higher-paying, more innovative Americans. It is allowed to be imported.
One reason companies favor these workers is because they are paid with government-provided green cards. In contrast, American professionals must be paid in cash, which reduces company stock prices and executive bonuses. This hidden non-dollar economy helps explain why investors like Elon Musk are determined to protect the H-1B program from the populist reforms implemented by President Trump in 2020. That reform was killed by President Joe Biden's delegates, who significantly increased the policy. Influx of white collar workers.
This huge influx is preventing many young Americans from working. On January 15th, wall street journal reported:
Get a professional job in America It has become very difficult Even Harvard Business School has said that MBA graduates can no longer rely solely on the school's name to get doors open.
Twenty-three percent of job-seeking Harvard MBAs who graduated last spring were still looking for work three months after leaving campus. This share is up from 20% a year ago. Cooling of the white-collar labor market; the school said this number would be 10% in 2022.
“We should freeze all inflows, with perhaps some notable exceptions,” Roy said after the CIS event, adding:
[A freeze] It's going to put incredible pressure on Americans to make sure they have the opportunity to work…If you look at the numbers, we're crushing the average American worker; They subsidize companies to bring in cheaper labor at their expense. American workers…I think if the average American worker's wages go up, that's probably a good thing.
But Republican lawmakers, he says, “pretty much what they're doing is at the behest of whoever is shouting 'we want cheap labor' the loudest.” He said automation and training will increase productivity in creating wealth.
“I would argue that the big winners among developed countries are those with declining populations,” said BlackRock founder Larry Fink. said At the 2024 pro-globalist event hosted by the World Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Fink oversees a $10 trillion investment portfolio aimed at staying ahead of China's high-tech manufacturing industry, which has few immigrants.
that [less-migration strategy] That's something most people never talk about. we always thought [a] Depopulation is a negative factor [economic] growth. However, in conversations with leaders of these large developed countries, [such as China, and Japan] It has xenophobic, anti-immigrant policies and does not allow anyone to enter the country. [so they have] Shrinking demographics — these countries will rapidly develop robotics, AI, and technology…
If you commit to all the things that will change your productivity, most of us think that [emphasis added] —Even if the population declines, it will be possible to raise the country's standard of living and the standard of living of individuals.
In the United States, “75% of college graduates who majored in STEM fields do not have a STEM job,” he told the conference.
“For the past 50 years, we've kept our foot on the gas on both legal and illegal immigration — everyone on K Street.” [or] “Anyone in corporate America who says otherwise is lying,” he added.
“I believe that the average hard-working American family is being trampled upon by a government that is more interested in profits than in making corporations profitable,” Roy said. “I hope the Trump administration does something about it.”
But President Trump has regularly criticized Mr. Roy over federal spending, which Mr. Roy wants to cut.
