No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025
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This section would let the Act be called the No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act .
2Aliens who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, supported, or otherwise facilitated attacks against Israel
This section would change several parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act to address people connected to the attacks against Israel that Hamas initiated beginning October 7, 2023. First, existing law already lists officers, officials, representatives, and spokespeople of the Palestine Liberation Organization as covered by a terrorism-related inadmissibility provision in section 212(a)(3)(B)(i). This section would add plain members to that same list of covered roles, and would extend the whole list of covered roles so that it also reaches officers, officials, representatives, members, and spokespeople of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and of Hamas, not just the Palestine Liberation Organization. Second, it would add a new, stand-alone ground of inadmissibility to section 212(a)(3): any alien who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, gave material support to, or otherwise facilitated any of the attacks against Israel that Hamas initiated beginning October 7, 2023, would be inadmissible to the United States. Third, it would make any alien who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, gave material support to, or otherwise facilitated those same October 7, 2023 Hamas-initiated attacks against Israel ineligible for any relief under the immigration laws. That includes withholding of removal, asylum under section 208, and protection against removal under section 2242 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, along with any regulations issued under that section. Fourth, it would add this new inadmissibility ground to the list of grounds, in section 237(a)(4)(B), that make an alien deportable, so an alien who falls under the new ground would also be deportable on that basis, alongside the two grounds already listed there. Finally, starting no later than one year after the Act is enacted, and every year after that, it would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to Congress the number of aliens found inadmissible under the new ground, and the number of aliens who both fall under the new ground and were found deportable on that basis.
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2. Aliens who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, supported, or otherwise facilitated attacks against Israel (a) Participants in Hamas Terrorism against Israel Section 212(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (B)(i), in the matter following subclause (IX)— (A) by inserting Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or Hamas after Palestine Liberation Organization ; and (B) by inserting member, after representative, ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (H) Participants in Hamas Terrorism against Israel Any alien who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated any of the attacks against Israel initiated by Hamas beginning on October 7, 2023, is inadmissible. . (b) Ineligibility for relief Section 241(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (D) Ineligibility for relief Any alien who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated any of the attacks against Israel initiated by Hamas beginning on October 7, 2023, shall be ineligible for any relief under the immigration laws, including under this section, section 208, and section 2242 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (and any regulations issued pursuant to such section). . (c) Conforming amendment Section 237(a)(4)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(4)(B) ) is amended by striking subparagraph (B) or (F) and inserting subparagraph (B), (F), or (H) . (d) Report required on participants in Hamas terrorism against Israel Beginning not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and each year thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a report to Congress, including the number of aliens who were— (1) found to be inadmissible under section 212(a)(3)(H) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(H) ); and (2) described in section 212(a)(3)(H) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(H) ) and found to be removable pursuant to section 237(a)(4)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(4)(B) ).
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