HR3724-119

What This Bill Does

The No Amnesty for Hamas Sympathizers Act is a sweeping immigration restriction bill aimed at Palestinians from Gaza or Palestinian-administered territory within Judea and Samaria and holders of Palestinian Authority passports or travel documents. It gives no force or effect to the February 14, 2024 presidential memorandum on Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Palestinians and the April 15, 2024 DHS employment authorization notice implementing that DED, and bars federal funds from providing DED to covered people. It amends the TPS statute so covered people are ineligible for temporary protected status. It amends inadmissibility and deportability grounds so covered people are inadmissible and deportable. It bars DHS from paroling covered people into the United States. It makes covered people ineligible for asylum. It makes covered people ineligible for refugee admission and requires removal. If a covered person admitted as a refugee later adjusts to lawful permanent residence and commits a crime of violence, that LPR status must be rescinded.

Who Benefits and How

Immigration restriction advocates benefit from broad statutory bars on DED, TPS, parole, asylum, and refugee admission for covered Palestinians. Federal agencies opposing Palestinian DED benefit from a funding prohibition and nullification of the 2024 memorandum and DHS notice. State officials concerned about parole or refugee admissions benefit from stricter federal eligibility rules. Supporters of rescission after violent crimes benefit from a mandatory LPR-status consequence in covered refugee cases.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Palestinians from Gaza or Judea and Samaria lose eligibility for multiple immigration protections and statuses. Palestinian Authority passport holders become inadmissible, deportable, and ineligible for TPS, parole, asylum, and refugee admission. DHS immigration officers must identify covered residence or travel-document status and apply the new bars. USCIS asylum and refugee officers must deny covered cases regardless of ordinary asylum or refugee eligibility. Immigration courts must handle expanded inadmissibility, deportability, removal, and status-rescission consequences.

Key Provisions

• Nullifies the 2024 Palestinian deferred enforced departure memorandum and DHS work authorization notice.
• Prohibits federal funds for DED for covered Palestinians.
• Bars covered Palestinians from TPS, parole, asylum, and refugee admission.
• Makes covered Palestinians inadmissible and deportable.
• Requires removal of covered refugee applicants and rescission of LPR status after specified crimes of violence.