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The bill tightens immigration eligibility and enforcement and raises revenue and administrative consolidation, but does so by removing legal pathways, benefits, and protections for many immigrants — with major impacts on families, students, employers, and civil liberties.
Immigrants seeking visas: the bill tightens eligibility rules and pauses some lawful admissions until Congress enacts specified conditions, reducing near-term admissions (claimed national-security benefit).
State and local governments: gives localities explicit authority to deny school enrollment to unlawfully present children, increasing local discretion over K–12 enrollment decisions.
Employers/taxpayers: creates a large H‑1B hiring fee intended to incentivize employers to prioritize domestic hiring, potentially increasing opportunities for U.S. workers if employers change hiring practices.
U.S.-born children of noncitizen, non-LPR parents: the bill would deny birthright citizenship to these children, removing constitutional protections for them and creating risks of statelessness.
Visa applicants: the bill imposes broad ideological and associational bars (e.g., labels like 'Islamist', membership in certain organizations) that could produce discriminatory denials and chill lawful applicants based on religion, politics, or national origin.
Noncitizen individuals and low-income immigrant families: large cuts or ineligibility for many federal benefits would increase hardship for vulnerable households and shift uncompensated care and service costs onto hospitals, localities, and taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Pauses most visas and status grants until new rules are enacted; ends the Diversity Visa, stops most F‑1 work authorization, adds a $100,000 H‑1B employer fee, and restricts benefit eligibility.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Charles Roy · Last progress November 20, 2025
Pauses most new visas and grants of immigration status until Congress enacts a set of new immigration rules and conditions. It would immediately change who can get visas or status, end the Diversity Visa program, bar most employment authorization for F‑1 students, add a large new H‑1B employer fee, and deny many federal benefits to certain noncitizens identified by new criteria. The bill also requires refunds and revocations of many pending applications that become ineligible, uses existing INA definitions for terms, and phases the H‑1B fee in beginning in fiscal year 2026.