Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced a bill on Wednesday that aims to block terrorists who participated in Hamas’s Oct 7, 2023, attack from entering the United States.
The No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act, which Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) introduced last year and which passed the House 422-2—with Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) dissenting—bars migrants 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 prohibits “any such individual from being eligible for any immigration benefits,” the senators stated.
“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 stated. “This common-sense, bipartisan bill would ensure that no migrant tied to Hamas and the horrific terrorist attack on Oct. 7 is allowed to enter our country or receive immigration benefits on the taxpayer dime.”
Rosen stated that “no one who participated in Hamas’s brutal Oct. 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,” she added. “I’ll always work across the aisle to keep our nation safe.”
