Chip Roy’s PAUSE Act: The Immigration Moratorium America Needs

On November the 11^th of 2025, Texas’ 21^st congressional district representative Chip Roy introduced the Pausing on Admissions Until Security Ensured Act of 2025, more widely known as the PAUSE Act of 2025. The bill seeks to put a complete pause on immigration into the United States until Congress can address the fundamental flaws of our immigration system and reconstruct it to fit the national interest of the United States. It’s a fantastic piece of legislation and a necessary first step toward what every American nationalist’s ultimate aim should be: a sensible remigration policy to undo the demographic and cultural harm of post-1965 mass immigration.

The PAUSE Act has 10 co-sponsors, and they are all Republicans: Andy Biggs of Arizona, Keith Self of Texas, Andrew Ogles of Tennessee, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Brandon Gill of Texas, Randy Fine of Florida, Elijah Crane of Arizona, Byron Donalds of Florida, Troy E. Nehls of Texas, and Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee. Those with the most basic of observational skills will quickly note that of the 218 Republicans in the House of Representatives (who hold the majority) just 11 – or 5%—have thus far put their name to legislation which could very well save this country from the demographic, cultural, and economic abyss.

That may seem like a dramatic statement; but as bad as illegal immigration has been (and it was awful until Trump’s second term and the closure of the border), legal immigration has been a serious driver of the demographic transformation of the United States and the large-scale social problems we now face. Since the 1990s the United States has admitted between 1 million and 1.2 million legal immigrants every year, and most of these have not been coming to work and “pay into the system” as some would have us believe. In fact, most immigrants come not to work but as family members of other immigrants, as refugees (many of these are fraudulent), and through the horrible diversity lottery that plucks random Third Worlders and drops them into America by the tens of thousands each year.

In any given fiscal year roughly 15-20% of immigrants to the United States come on a work visa of some kind, a further 65-70% come on family related visas, and the remaining 10-20% come as a result of the diversity visa program or as asylum seekers. Moreover, of the 70% of immigrants who come on family related grounds, only 20-25% are sponsored by native-born US citizens, the remaining 75% of family reunification visas are granted as a result of sponsorship by other immigrants. This is what people typically refer to as “chain migration.” In the end only about ~200,000 of the legal immigrants we admit to this country every year have a connection to this country.

It’s time for this system to be scrapped, and that is what the PAUSE Act does.

The meat of the bill begins in Section 2 titled simply “Limitation” and reads:

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but except as provided in subsection (c), no alien may be issued a visa or provided any status under the immigration laws, until the immigration laws provide that—”

This provision effectively bans all immigration, permanent or temporary, into the United States until Congress takes actions to reform immigration law along a set of predetermined criteria present within the bill. Those criteria are:

1. States and local governments be allowed to ban illegal aliens from public schools.
2. A ban is placed on illegal aliens ever adjusting their status to permanent residency (getting a green card).
3. Birthright citizenship is changed to extend only to those born in the United States to an American parent or a parent with permanent residency status (a Green Card).
4. Effectively ends chain migration by limiting family-based reunification to the spouses and minor children of US citizens or Green Card holders.
5. A immigration ban is placed on: Islamists, Communists, Sharia law adherents, suspected terrorists, foreign terrorist group members, and those affiliated with foreign terrorism.
6. Bans any foreigner from accessing the major forms of welfare (Medicaid, SNAP, housing assistance, cash etc.).

These are all fantastic criteria and would do a great deal to force Congress’ hand to craft immigration reform legislation that keeps out the radical and impoverished elements of the global masses.

This list falls short in one place, though. If a legal permanent resident has a child, there is no reason for that child to be granted American citizenship at birth. He or she should either be naturalized when and if their parent is naturalized or have to wait until adulthood to go through the naturalization process themselves. American citizenship is the most precious possession any American can pass down to their children, and no foreigner should be granted such a privilege simply because their mother or father has a Green Card.

On to Section 3 of the bill headlined “H-1B Fees.”

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning with fiscal year 2026, a fee of $100,000 shall be imposed on an employer filing a petition under paragraph (1)— “

This enshrines President Trump’s $100,000 H1B visa fee into law, but that is not all. The section goes on to require that the fee be paid any time an H1B holder extends their stay (renews the visa) or wishes to change employers within the United States. This a great policy, and the latter two inclusions in the section are clearly meant to stop wealthy corporations from farming H1B holders into the country and then giving them out to other corporations. This is a practice that has existed for a long time in this country even without the high fees.

Section 4 titled “Termination of the Optional Practical Training Program” reads:

““(4) EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION FOR ALIENS NO LONGER ENGAGED IN FULL-TIME STUDY IN THE UNITED STATES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no alien present in the United States as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(F)(i) may be provided employment authorization in the United States.”

This provision ends the ridiculous Optional Practical Training Program (OPT) that allows American companies to hire newly graduated foreign students out of American universities. The program allows companies to hire these students without having to pay payroll taxes for 5 years. This massively undercuts recent American graduates and takes as many as 250,000 entry-level jobs from young Americans each year. It is fantastic that the PAUSE Act seeks to end it, permanently.

Section 5 of the bill is titled “Termination of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.”

This section of the bill simply amends extant US code in Title 8 Section 1153 to finally eliminate the diversity visa lottery. This program as it currently exists grants permanent residence to 55,000 “lottery winners” and their family members every year and has functioned for decades to the detriment of the American people. Just recently the Portuguese man who shot the MIT professor and two students at Brown university was discovered to be residing in the United States as a result of the diversity visa lottery.

All told, Representative Chip Roy’s PAUSE Act is a fantastic piece of legislation that seeks to stop the massive inflow of legal immigrants into this country—something that the president has been forced to do administratively due to the uncooperative nature of the (still) Republican controlled Congress. White Papers finds this bill to be a genuine expression of American nationalism and shows a desire to right many of the wrongs in our immigration system that have led to our demographic collapse. Moreover, an immigration moratorium is a necessary first step on the road to a sensible remigration policy. We cannot have effective remigration if the volume and composition of legal immigration into this country remains the same in both a pre-remigration and post-remigration America.