HR176-119

What This Bill Does

The No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025 amends the Immigration and Nationality Act. It adds Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas to the terrorism-related inadmissibility language that already references the Palestine Liberation Organization, and it adds members as well as representatives. It creates a specific inadmissibility ground for any noncitizen who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated any of the attacks against Israel initiated by Hamas beginning on October 7, 2023. It makes the same covered noncitizens ineligible for immigration relief, including withholding of removal under INA section 241(b)(3), asylum under section 208, and protection-related relief under section 2242 of the 1999 Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act and related regulations. It also makes the new inadmissibility ground a basis for removability and requires the Homeland Security Secretary to report annually to Congress on how many people were found inadmissible or removable under the new ground.

Who Benefits and How

Department of Homeland Security immigration officers, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudicators, Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorneys, Customs and Border Protection officers, immigration judges, congressional homeland-security committees, congressional judiciary committees, Israeli victims' advocates, Israel, and national-security prosecutors benefit from a more explicit statutory ground to deny admission, deny relief, remove covered noncitizens, and track annual use of the October 7 Hamas attack provisions.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Noncitizens accused of carrying out, participating in, planning, financing, materially supporting, or facilitating the October 7 Hamas attacks, Hamas members, Palestinian Islamic Jihad members, immigration defense attorneys, asylum applicants with alleged covered links, DHS reporting staff, USCIS adjudicators, ICE trial attorneys, CBP officers, and immigration courts must apply the new inadmissibility, removability, relief-bar, and annual-reporting rules, with covered noncitizens losing admission and relief eligibility.

Key Provisions

• Adds Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas members and representatives to existing terrorism-related inadmissibility language.
• Creates a new inadmissibility ground for noncitizens who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, materially supported, or facilitated Hamas's October 7, 2023 attacks against Israel.
• Bars covered noncitizens from immigration relief, including withholding of removal, asylum, and related protection under 1999 law and regulations.
• Makes the new ground usable for removability under INA section 237(a)(4)(B).
• Requires DHS annual reports to Congress on inadmissibility and removability findings under the new ground.