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The bill prioritizes stricter, categorical exclusions for people tied to Palestinian‑administered areas to reduce perceived security risks and administrative burden, but it does so by removing multiple humanitarian protections — increasing risks to vulnerable people, legal challenges, diplomatic friction, and potential long‑term enforcement costs.
Taxpayers and federal agencies will avoid the costs of implementing or expanding temporary humanitarian programs (DED, TPS, parole, asylum/refugee processing) for people tied to Palestinian‑administered areas, reducing near‑term fiscal and implementation burdens.
DHS and other immigration officials gain clearer, categorical statutory authority to deny or remove noncitizens who habitually resided in Palestinian‑administered territories or hold Palestinian Authority travel documents, reducing adjudicator ambiguity and simplifying enforcement decisions.
Narrowing parole, TPS, asylum, and refugee admissions for people tied to Palestinian‑administered areas is intended to reduce perceived national security risks and allow DHS to concentrate screening and enforcement resources elsewhere.
People who habitually resided in Gaza, Judea/Samaria (the West Bank), or who hold Palestinian Authority passports would be barred from DED, TPS, parole, asylum, and refugee protections and may be denied visas or removed — leaving vulnerable civilians, refugees, and families with no U.S. humanitarian pathway.
Those barred from humanitarian protections face increased risk of detention, removal, refoulement, and other serious harms because they lose access to asylum, parole, or temporary relief even when fleeing violence or persecution.
Categorical bars and mandated removals will disrupt families and lawful travel, denying visas and parole that are often used for family reunification, medical reasons, or urgent humanitarian needs.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Categorically bars DED, TPS, parole, asylum, and refugee admission and creates inadmissibility/deportability for persons habitually resident in Palestinian‑administered Judea and Samaria or Gaza or who hold Palestinian Authority travel documents.
Introduced June 4, 2025 by Nancy Mace · Last progress June 4, 2025
Prohibits multiple forms of U.S. immigration relief and protections for aliens who either habitually resided in Palestinian‑administered territory in Judea and Samaria or Gaza, or who hold a passport or travel document issued by the Palestinian Authority. It invalidates two recent executive actions relating to Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) and employment authorization for certain Palestinians, and bars use of federal funds to provide DED to people meeting those residence or document criteria. Adds parallel, categorical bars across the Immigration and Nationality Act: makes such persons ineligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), inadmissible and removable, ineligible for parole, ineligible for asylum, and ineligible for refugee admission; it also allows rescission of previously adjusted lawful permanent resident status if the person later commits a federal "crime of violence." The bill inserts these categorical exclusions without creating statutory waivers or exceptions and narrows several existing relief authorities.