WHEREAS, on November 15, 2025, the Young Republicans of Texas adopted the Resolution to Prioritize American Workers, Reform Visa Programs, and Secure American Prosperity (the “2025 Immigration Mega-Resolution”); and
WHEREAS, the findings and calls for action in that resolution remain the policy of this organization; and
WHEREAS, the Trump Administration has taken meaningful steps to increase scrutiny of H-1B petitions, limit abuses of Optional Practical Training and related student work authorizations, limit abuses of the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) process, and strengthen enforcement against visa fraud and overstays; and
WHEREAS, the Trump Administration has used proclamations, executive orders, and administrative suspensions to raise the cost of displacing American workers through H-1B, OPT, and PERM sponsorship; and
WHEREAS, these administrative actions have shown that executive tools can reduce displacement of American workers while broader legislative reforms are pursued; and
WHEREAS, H-1B, OPT/CPT, L-1, and related programs continue to be used by employers, including staffing firms and entities receiving public funds, to displace qualified American workers in Texas and nationwide; and
WHEREAS, chain migration, dual-intent provisions, and pathways that convert temporary status into permanent residency remain major drivers of permanent immigration outside any test of skill or assimilation; and
WHEREAS, American workers, particularly recent graduates and mid-career professionals, continue to face underemployment and wage pressure in key industries;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Young Republicans of Texas:
Reaffirm the 2025 Immigration Mega-Resolution in full as the continuing policy of this organization;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the following additional actions are adopted:
End Dual Intent for Temporary Visas. Require every non-immigrant visa, including H and L, to carry a present intent to depart at the end of status. Filing an immigrant petition, an adjustment application, or a labor certification shall be a violation of status, grounds for revocation, and a bar on any later visa of any kind. No dual-intent exception.
End the Diversity Visa Lottery. Repeal the diversity visa lottery program, accept no new entries, and void any selections not yet issued a visa.
End Extended Family Sponsorship. End immigrant visas for parents, married or adult sons and daughters, and siblings of citizens. A U.S.-born child does not confer status on a parent who entered or remained on a temporary visa. Deny all pending petitions in these categories.
Condition Fiancé and Spouse Admission on a Verified Marriage. No K-1, K-3, IR-1, or CR-1 beneficiary may be admitted as a permanent resident or receive work authorization until the couple has met in person twice in the prior twenty-four months (including once abroad), both are at least twenty-one, the petitioner alone meets the income test, the marriage occurs in the United States, and the couple has lived together in the United States for five continuous years and passed a second interview. A petition that fails or is withdrawn before that interview bars the beneficiary for life and counts as the petitioner’s lifetime sponsorship.
One Foreign Fiancé or Spouse Sponsorship Per Lifetime. Each eligible petitioner may file only one K-1, K-3, IR-1, or CR-1 petition in a lifetime. A petition filed, approved, withdrawn, denied for fraud, or abandoned counts towards the lifetime maximum. Divorce, annulment, or the death of the spouse after admission does not restore eligibility.
End Anchor Marriages. For purposes of this resolution, an “anchor marriage” means a marriage in which a first- or second-generation American sponsors a foreign national for permanent residency, thereby continuing a chain of foreign admissions. Approve a K-1, K-3, IR-1, or CR-1 petition only if the petitioner is a third-generation American, defined as a citizen born in the United States to two U.S.-born citizen parents, with all four grandparents U.S. citizens. Citizenship by naturalization, birth abroad to citizen parents, or adoption does not qualify. Permanent residents may not sponsor a foreign spouse or fiancé. Deny non-qualifying pending petitions. No waiver, hardship exception, or military exception.
Bar Subsidized Study for Foreign Students. No F-1, J-1, or M-1 student may receive a scholarship, stipend, tuition waiver, or loan from federal funds, state funds, a public university, or a private university that accepts federal funds, research grants, or tax-deductible gifts. Endowment income and restricted gifts used for such aid are taxable to the university and nondeductible. Aid already received becomes a debt of the student at the Treasury rate or 8 percent (whichever is higher) if the student has not departed within thirty days of program completion. Unpaid balances are collected as federal tax debt, offset against future U.S. earnings, tax refunds, or benefits, and are grounds for passport revocation and a permanent bar on any later visa. If the debt remains unpaid one year after it comes due, the student’s country of citizenship is liable and new F-1, J-1, and M-1 visas to its nationals are suspended until paid.
Deny Resident Benefits in Higher Education to Dependents of Temporary Visa Holders. Dependents of temporary visa holder(s) shall be ineligible for in-state tuition at any public college or university in Texas, and be ineligible for automatic admission based on class rank. Tuition shall be charged at the non-resident rate, and admission shall be considered only in the general pool of applicants.
Bar Asylum Claims by Temporary Visa Holders. Bar any person admitted on any non-immigrant visa from filing for asylum, withholding, or protection under the Convention Against Torture while in the United States or at a port of entry. Any such claim filed in violation of this clause shall be dismissed, the visa revoked, and the person removed. No work authorization shall issue while any such claim is pending.
End Refugee Admissions and Categorical Parole. Repeal the refugee admission program. No person shall be admitted as a refugee, and parole shall be unavailable to any person outside the United States. End categorical parole programs, and revoke grants already issued under them. No work authorization shall be issued on the basis of a pending refugee, asylum, or parole claim.
End the EB-5 Investor Visa. Repeal the EB-5 immigrant investor program. No new petition shall be accepted, and pending petitions must be denied unless the full investment has already been spent and every job counted toward it is a permanent, full-time position held by a U.S. citizen. Passive investment, pooled regional-center investment, and jobs held by noncitizens do not qualify.
Tax Remittances and Collect Unpaid Student Debts. Enact a tax on outbound personal remittances to countries below the GDP-per-capita threshold ($30,000 USD or 30% of the U.S. GDP per capita, whichever is higher) at 25 percent, and at 50 percent if that country has any unpaid student-aid balance. Revenue collected against a country’s unpaid balance shall be credited to that debt. Banks and transfer services that fail to withhold are liable for the tax.
Repeal the Hart-Celler Act. Repeal the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Pub. L. 89-236, including the family-preference system and the abolition of national-origin quotas enacted therein. Furthermore, admission shall not be restored by reenacting those provisions under another title.
Repeal the Immigration Act of 1990. Repeal the Immigration Act of 1990, Pub. L. 101-649, including the diversity visa program, the employment-based preference expansion, and the H-1B provisions enacted therein. No authority repealed by this clause shall be exercised under a successor statute.
Lifetime Exclusion for Visa Abuse, and End Visa Waiver for Noncooperating Countries. A non-immigrant who gives birth in the United States, overstays, or files a barred asylum claim shall be excluded for life. End the visa-waiver entry for any country that refuses to receive its deported nationals or that carries an unpaid student-aid balance.
Limit Citizenship at Birth. A person born in the United States is a citizen at birth only if both parents are citizens of the United States and at least one parent is a citizen by birth in the United States under this clause. Birth to a permanent resident, to a temporary visa holder, to an illegal entrant, or to parents whose citizenship was both acquired by naturalization does not confer citizenship.
Lengthen the Path to Naturalization. A person admitted on a marriage-based or employment-based immigrant visa may not naturalize until no less than twenty years after admission as a permanent resident, with continuous residence and tax filing in each of those years. Time in conditional status counts only after the conditions are removed.
Repeal Country-Specific Adjustment Acts. Repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997, the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998, Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness, and the Cuban-Haitian adjustment in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Presence in the United States shall not by itself confer eligibility for permanent residence. Pending applications shall be denied, and no country-specific adjustment copied from these acts shall be enacted.
Deny State Benefits and Enforce Detainers. Texas shall not issue an occupational license, charge in-state tuition, or award a public contract to any person who is in the United States on a visa category ended by this resolution. No Texas city, county, or other jurisdiction may decline a federal immigration detainer or release from custody a person sought by federal immigration authorities. A jurisdiction that declines a detainer or releases such a person shall lose its state funding until it complies, and for five years after compliance is restored.
No waiver of any condition in the foregoing clauses shall be granted.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Young Republicans of Texas urge federal and state lawmakers, particularly in Texas, to enact legislation and regulations that align with these principles, ensuring that the United States remains a nation unbreakable in its commitment to its citizens, its culture, and its sovereignty.
Adopted this 17th day of October, 2026, by the Young Republicans of Texas.
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