Texas Representative Chip Roy is demanding a complete halt to immigration following a Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship, arguing the decision has left Congress with no choice but to act immediately to prevent what he called systematic exploitation of American law.
Roy did not mince words. “PAUSE IMMIGRATION! Just STOP IT! Stop ALL immigration!” he said, framing the call as a direct response to what he described as a court‑manufactured expansion of citizenship rights.
The Supreme Court’s ruling, which Roy said was manufactured “out of thin air,” drew his sharpest criticism. “The United States Supreme Court, manufacturing out of thin air, a complete ABOMINATION of a ruling by the Chief Justice, suggesting that you can simply become a citizen from being born on dirt, thereby validating the abhorrent practice of baby factories and moving people here to be born to be able to become a citizen, leaving us under no choice but to do what we must do to say, pause immigration!”
Roy said the decision creates a direct path for foreign nationals — including those he says are connected to adversarial governments — to exploit American immigration and citizenship law. “Because if it’s going to be exploited for people to come here when they’re pregnant, to allow somebody who’s working for the Chinese Communist Party to come here and have children to become American citizens and then have our laws exploited like they were in the previous administration.”
The ruling, he argued, transforms the question of birthright citizenship from a constitutional principle into an operational vulnerability. In his view, Congress now bears the obligation to respond legislatively — not just rhetorically.
His demand extends beyond a moratorium. Roy called on Congress to permanently codify the immigration enforcement policies implemented by the Trump administration, closing what he described as longstanding loopholes involving asylum claims, parole authority, and catch‑and‑release practices. Without statutory action, he said, those protections could be reversed by a future administration. “It is why this Congress should act to pause all immigration, this Congress should act immediately to codify what the president has been doing to close the loopholes under asylum and parole, the catch and release policies, and to codify those that a future Biden‑type administration cannot do to the American people what these radical leftists did to the American people!”
Roy’s comments place him among a bloc of lawmakers who have argued that the birthright citizenship ruling fundamentally alters the stakes of the immigration debate, giving foreign nationals a statutory incentive to enter the country specifically to secure citizenship for children born on American soil.
Whether Congress will take up a formal immigration moratorium remains unclear. Competing proposals are expected to surface in both chambers as lawmakers weigh the ruling’s long‑term implications.
