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No Censors on our Shores Act of 2025

H.R. 1071 · 119th Congress · Feb 6, 2025 · Lineage

A BILL

To provide that any foreign government official who engages in censorship of American speech is inadmissible and deportable.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “No Censors on our Shores Act of 2025”.

Sec. 2 Inadmissibility and deportability related to censoring speech

(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) Censorship—Any alien who, while serving as a government official of any foreign government, was responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, the commission of any act against a United States citizen located in the United States that, if committed by a government official of the United States in the United States, would violate the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 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) Censorship—Any alien who, while serving as a government official of any foreign government, was responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, the commission of any act against a United States citizen located in the United States that, if committed by a government official of the United States in the United States, would violate the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, is deportable.”