Chip Roy: “Every one of us here have significant groups of constituents and people across this country from the communities in…”

“Every one of us here have significant groups of constituents and people across this country from the communities in question, from the Chinese-American communities, from the Indian- American communities, who have interest in wanting to make sure their communities can be represented and might well support some of this. But of course they do. Of course they do. What are we going to do here but pick winners and losers? That is what this Congress does every single day, pick winners and losers. Who are the losers on this? It is not Big Tech, it is not all the big corporations that are all happy to collude with the people's House in order to get their labor supply, what they need. But who are going to be the losers? A lot of the hospitals. Why did the hospital association oppose this? Could it be that there are Filipino nurses and others who are going to be left behind or are going to have to go to the back of the line? The Filipino nurses that were crowding the room in which I was being treated for cancer at M.D. Anderson, which is chock-full of Filipino nurses? We are picking winners and losers here based on nationalities and specific countries. The gentlewoman from California just tried to mount a defense that we are not going to open the door to Chinese Communists coming to the United States but conveniently leaves out of the code all of the exceptions: exception for involuntary membership, exception for past membership, exception for close family members.…”