Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026 in plain language
1: Short title
This section gives the Act its official short title, the Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2025 .
2: Inadmissibility and deportability related to defrauding the United States Government or the unlawful receipt of public benefits
This section would add a new ground of inadmissibility and a new ground of deportability to the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the inadmissibility change, an alien would be inadmissible to the United States if the alien has been convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts that constitute the essential elements of an offense that involves defrauding the United States Government, or the unlawful receipt of a Federal public benefit (as defined in section 401(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 8 U.S.C. 1611) or a State or local public benefit (as defined in section 411(c) of that Act, 8 U.S.C. 1621), or a conspiracy to commit such an offense. Under the deportability change, an alien who has been convicted of an offense involving defrauding the United States Government, or the unlawful receipt of a Federal public benefit (as defined in the same section 401(c)) or a State or local public benefit (as defined in the same section 411(c)), or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, would be deportable; unlike the inadmissibility ground, this deportability ground applies only where the alien has actually been convicted, not merely on an admission.
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2. Inadmissibility and deportability related to defrauding the United States Government or the unlawful receipt of public benefits (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) Defrauding the United States Government or the unlawful receipt of public benefits Any alien who has been convicted of, who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of, an offense that involves defrauding the United States Government or the unlawful receipt of a Federal public benefit (as such term is defined in section 401(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1611 ) or a State or local public benefit (as such term is defined in section 411(c) of such Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1621 ), or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, 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) Defrauding the United States government or the unlawful receipt of public benefits Any alien who has been convicted of an offense that involves defrauding the United States Government or the unlawful receipt of a Federal public benefit (as such term is defined in section 401(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1611 ) or a State or local public benefit (as such term is defined in section 411(c) of such Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1621 ), or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, is deportable. .