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The bill strengthens U.S. tools for quickly identifying, sanctioning, and blocking entry by individuals and organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood—potentially improving national security and transparency—while creating heightened due‑process risks, collateral harm to charities and travelers, diplomatic/fiscal costs, and limits on executive flexibility.
Foreign nationals the President determines are Muslim Brotherhood members will be barred from U.S. visas/admission and have visas revoked, reducing the chance that persons the government links to hostile organizations can enter the country.
Americans and federal policymakers will get more transparency through required annual unclassified reports (with an optional classified annex) identifying Muslim Brotherhood branches and designation assessments, improving public oversight and interagency coordination.
The bill creates a faster, legally grounded process for designations and sanctions—combining clearer statutory findings tying groups to terrorism with deadlines for presidential action—helping disrupt organizations the government deems a threat more quickly.
Individuals and groups (including immigrants, dual nationals, and organizations) could be declared inadmissible, have visas revoked, or have assets frozen based on presidential determinations and automatic sanction deadlines with limited individualized adjudication, raising serious due-process and rights concerns.
Charitable workers, activists, humanitarian actors, and dual‑national travelers could be swept up by broad statutory definitions and country listings, disrupting travel, aid delivery, and nonprofit operations.
Taxpayers and the U.S. government could face increased intelligence, legal, consular, and diplomatic costs and potential retaliatory measures from foreign governments as a result of mandated sanctions and enforcement actions.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Defines the Muslim Brotherhood and its branches, requires designation and sanctions (FTO/EO13224), imposes visa inadmissibility and revocation, and mandates State Department reports.
Introduced July 15, 2025 by Rafael Edward Cruz · Last progress July 15, 2025
Expands U.S. counterterrorism law to define the “Muslim Brotherhood,” its branches, and members, and requires the President and Secretary of State to impose terrorism-related sanctions and immigration prohibitions against them. It directs the State Department to identify branches worldwide, impose FTO and Executive Order 13224 measures on determined branches, revoke visas and make members inadmissible, and deliver an initial report within 90 days and annual updates. The law also mandates that sanctions on the Muslim Brotherhood (or any successor) be applied within 90 days of enactment and that sanctions based on positive report findings remain in place for four years; reporting must be unclassified with a possible classified annex.