This bill would change the Immigration and Nationality Act to deny U.S. immigration benefits to people involved in the attacks against Israel that began on October 7, 2023, and who are connected to Hamas. It adds a new inadmissibility ground saying any alien who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated those attacks is inadmissible.
The bill also inserts the terms "senior member" and explicitly names officers, officials, members, or spokespeople of Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Hamas in an existing terrorism-related subsection. It makes people described in the new inadmissibility section ineligible for any immigration relief, including relief under section 208 (asylum) and other specified remedies. The bill amends a removal ground to reference the new inadmissibility category. Finally, it requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to send an annual report to Congress listing how many aliens have been found inadmissible under the new section and how many are removable under the amended removal provision.
If an alien carried out, participated in, planned, financed, supported, or otherwise facilitated the October 7, 2023 attacks attributed to Hamas, this bill would make that person inadmissible to the United States and ineligible for the forms of immigration relief named in the bill. For people not described in the bill, the bill does not change current immigration rules. The Department of Homeland Security would provide Congress an annual count of affected people.
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The bill's stated purpose is to deny immigration benefits and any relief under the immigration laws to aliens who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated the October 7, 2023 attacks against Israel initiated by Hamas. The bill was introduced by Senators Marsha Blackburn and Jacky Rosen on February 27, 2025.
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