U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) are introducing a bill this week that would prevent migrants tied to the terrorist group Hamas from entering the U.S. and receiving immigration benefits.
Blackburn and Rosen’s ‘No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act’ would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deny immigration benefits to aliens who “carried out, participated in, planned, financed, supported, or otherwise facilitated” the recent attacks against Israel beginning on October 7, 2023.
The bill would also require the Secretary of Homeland Security to deliver a report to Congress one year after the bill is enacted and annually thereafter that identifies the number of aliens who have been found to be “inadmissible” under the law and those who have been found to be “removable” under the law.
“Since January 2021, the Biden-Harris administration has released nearly 100 dangerous individuals on the terrorist watchlist into the country, as well as illegal immigrants from U.S. adversaries like Iran,” Blackburn said in a statement.
“This common-sense, bipartisan bill would ensure that no migrant tied to Hamas and the horrific terrorist attack on October 7 is allowed to enter our country or receive immigration benefits on the taxpayer dime,” Blackburn added.
Roden agreed, saying, “No one who participated in Hamas’s brutal October 7 terrorist attack should be allowed to enter the United States.”
“That’s why I’m helping introduce bipartisan legislation to prohibit Hamas terrorists from being eligible to receive immigration benefits. I’ll always work across the aisle to keep our nation safe,” Rosen added.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the “No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act” by a 422-2 vote earlier this year.
The two members who voted against the bill at the time were Democratic U.S. Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12) and Cori Bush (R-MO-01).
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Marsha Blackburn” by Marsha Blackburn.
