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119th CONGRESS
1st Session |
To consider, for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act, that officers, officials, representatives, spokespersons, and members of Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS, and individuals who endorse or espouse terrorist activities conducted by such organizations are engaged in terrorist activity.
Mr. Budd (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, Ms. Lummis, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Daines, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Ricketts, and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
To consider, for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act, that officers, officials, representatives, spokespersons, and members of Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS, and individuals who endorse or espouse terrorist activities conducted by such organizations are engaged in terrorist activity.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Terrorist Inadmissibility Codification Act”.
SEC. 2. Inclusion of Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS officials and members among aliens engaged in terrorist activity.
Section 212(a)(3)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)) is amended, in the undesignated matter following subclause (IX), by striking “or spokesman of the Palestine Liberation Organization” and inserting “spokesperson, or member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, or any successor or affiliate group, or who endorses or espouses terrorist activities conducted by any of the aforementioned groups,”.