Bipartisan legislation recently introduced in the U.S. Senate would prevent any migrant tied to Hamas from entering the United States.
The No Immigration Benefits For Hamas Terrorists Act would prohibit any migrant who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated in any way the attacks perpetrated by Hamas against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, from being admitted to the United States. It also would prohibit individuals from being eligible for immigration benefits.
U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced the bill.
“No one who participated in Hamas’s brutal Oct. 7 terrorist attack should be allowed to enter the United States,” Rosen said. “That’s why I’m helping introduce bipartisan legislation to prohibit Hamas terrorists from being eligible to receive immigration benefits.”
“The Biden-Harris administration released nearly 100 individuals on the terrorist watch list into our country over the last four years, and we need to make certain anyone tied to Hamas is not allowed to enter or remain in the U.S.,” Blackburn said. “This common-sense, bipartisan bill would ensure that no migrant tied to Hamas and its savage terrorist attack on Oct. 7 can enter our nation or receive immigration benefits on the taxpayer dime.”