No Censors on our Shores Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1071 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1071

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

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2025

    Mr. Issa (for himself, Ms. Salazar, Mr. Gill of Texas, and Mr.
 Baumgartner) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL

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

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Censors on our Shores Act''.

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 foreign government official, was responsible for or
                directly carried out, at any time, any act against a
                United States citizen located in the United States
                that, if committed by a United States government
                official 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 foreign government official, was responsible for or
                directly carried out, at any time, any act against a
                United States citizen located in the United States
                that, if committed by a United States government
                official in the United States, would violate the First
                Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, is
                deportable.''.
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