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Official title: Impose sanctions with respect to police departments in the People's Republic of China and other persons seeking to establish a Chinese police presence in the United States.
Introduced January 9, 2025 by Thomas Bryant Cotton · Last progress January 9, 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. national security and protects communities from PRC-linked surveillance by denying entry, visas, and access to assets for listed actors, at the cost of potential wrongful exclusions, economic friction for businesses/individuals, and concentrated executive discretion with limited oversight.
Taxpayers and the general public: blocks PRC police and United Front actors from operating in the U.S. and denies them access to assets and transactions, reducing foreign influence and strengthening U.S. national security.
Immigrants and communities targeted by foreign surveillance: makes covered PRC agents and facilitators inadmissible and allows immediate visa revocation, reducing their ability to surveil, intimidate, or coerce people in the U.S.
Federal employees and the general public: restricts U.S. agency cooperation with foreign-initiated investigations into listed actors, protecting U.S. citizens' privacy and limiting foreign influence in domestic probes.
Immigrants and their immediate family members: could be barred from entry or have visas revoked immediately, including due to mistaken, overbroad, or erroneous listings.
Congress and the public: broad statutory definitions and executive waiver/classified certification authorities risk opaque application of the law and limited congressional oversight of exemptions.
Taxpayers, businesses, and individuals engaged in affected transactions: assets may be blocked and certain transactions prohibited, increasing compliance costs and creating potential economic disruption.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the President to sanction specified Chinese law-enforcement and United Front actors and bars certain associated foreign nationals from U.S. entry, with immediate visa revocation.
Requires the President, on enactment, to impose blocking sanctions under IEEPA against Chinese provincial/municipal police units, senior leaders, and persons who establish or operate a Chinese police or United Front presence in the United States; it also bars certain foreign nationals tied to those entities from U.S. entry and revokes existing visas. The President may use IEEPA authorities to implement the measures, may issue brief waivers with classified notice to Congress, and federal agencies are restricted from assisting foreign-led investigations of listed entities unless the President finds such participation vital to U.S. health, safety, or well-being.