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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1071 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide that any foreign government official who engages in censorship |
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| 6 | 6 | | of American speech is inadmissible and deportable. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY6, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. I |
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| 10 | 10 | | SSA(for himself, Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. GILLof Texas, and Mr. |
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| 11 | 11 | | B |
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| 12 | 12 | | AUMGARTNER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 13 | 13 | | Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To provide that any foreign government official who engages |
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| 16 | 16 | | in censorship of American speech is inadmissible and |
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| 17 | 17 | | deportable. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Censors on our 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Shores Act’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. INADMISSIBILITY AND DEPORTABILITY RELATED 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | TO CENSORING SPEECH. 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (a) I |
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| 29 | 29 | | NADMISSIBILITY.—Section 212(a)(2) of the Im-3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | amended by adding at the end the following: 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘(J) C |
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| 33 | 33 | | ENSORSHIP.—Any alien who, while 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | serving as a foreign government official, was re-7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | sponsible for or directly carried out, at any 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | time, any act against a United States citizen lo-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | cated in the United States that, if committed by 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | a United States government official in the 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | United States, would violate the First Amend-12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ment to the Constitution of the United States, 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | is inadmissible.’’. 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (b) D |
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| 43 | 43 | | EPORTABILITY.—Section 237(a)(2) of the Im-15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | amended by adding at the end the following: 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(G) C |
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| 47 | 47 | | ENSORSHIP.—Any alien who, while 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | serving as a foreign government official, was re-19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | sponsible for or directly carried out, at any 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | time, any act against a United States citizen lo-21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | cated in the United States that, if committed by 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | a United States government official in the 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | United States, would violate the First Amend-24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •HR 1071 IH |
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| 57 | 57 | | ment to the Constitution of the United States, 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | is deportable.’’. 2 |
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