Union Calendar No. 523

119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 1071

[Report No. 119–603]


To provide that any foreign government official who engages in censorship of American speech is inadmissible and deportable.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 6, 2025

Mr. Issa (for himself, Ms. Salazar, Mr. Gill of Texas, and Mr. Baumgartner) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

April 9, 2026

Additional sponsors: Mr. Hunt and Mr. Cline

April 9, 2026

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 6, 2025]


A BILL

To provide that any foreign government official who engages in censorship of American speech is inadmissible and deportable.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “No Censors on our Shores Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. Inadmissibility and deportability related to censoring speech.

(a) Inadmissibility.—Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(J) CENSORSHIP.—Any alien who, while serving as a government official of any foreign government, was responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, the commission of any act against a United States citizen located in the United States that, if committed by a government official of the United States in the United States, would violate the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, is inadmissible.”.

(b) Deportability.—Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(G) CENSORSHIP.—Any alien who, while serving as a government official of any foreign government, was responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, the commission of any act against a United States citizen located in the United States that, if committed by a government official of the United States in the United States, would violate the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, is deportable.”.


Union Calendar No. 523

119th CONGRESS
     2d Session
H. R. 1071
[Report No. 119–603]

A BILL
To provide that any foreign government official who engages in censorship of American speech is inadmissible and deportable.

April 9, 2026
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed