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This bill centralizes and clarifies categorical exclusions for people linked to Palestinian‑administered territories—reducing caseloads and strengthening enforcement authority while substantially removing humanitarian protections and work authorization for affected individuals, with likely family, legal, and local-service consequences.
Federal immigration agencies gain a clear, statutory basis to categorically deny or restrict DED/TPS/parole/asylum/refugee relief and to remove or deny admission to people habitually resident in Palestinian‑administered areas or holding Palestinian Authority travel documents, reducing adjudication ambiguity and standardizing enforcement.
The bill enables the government to exclude and remove noncitizens linked to Palestinian‑administered territories, which proponents say reduces perceived national security risks at ports of entry and restricts entry by those with certain travel documents.
By narrowing eligibility for TPS/DED/asylum/parole/refugee intake, the bill is likely to lower program caseloads and associated federal spending on immigration relief and processing.
People who habitually lived in Gaza, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), or who hold Palestinian Authority travel documents will lose DED/TPS protections and work authorization, putting them at immediate risk of detention, deportation, and loss of income.
The bill bars asylum and refugee admission for people from those territories and categorically excludes many claims regardless of individual circumstances, increasing the chance that people fleeing persecution will be returned to unsafe conditions.
Denial of humanitarian parole, rescission of lawful permanent resident status after certain convictions, and mandatory removal provisions risk family separations and deportation of long-term residents, disrupting households and communities.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Introduced June 4, 2025 by Nancy Mace · Last progress June 4, 2025
Prohibits Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) and blocks use of funds to provide DED for people who habitually resided in the Palestinian-administered territory within Judea and Samaria or Gaza or who hold passports or travel documents issued by the Palestinian Authority. It also amends multiple immigration statutes to bar those same people from Temporary Protected Status (TPS), asylum, parole, refugee admission, and to make them inadmissible to and deportable from the United States; it allows revocation of adjusted lawful permanent resident status if such a person later commits a crime of violence. The changes operate by amending existing Immigration and Nationality Act provisions (inadmissibility, deportability, parole, asylum, TPS, and refugee admission) and by expressly invalidating recent executive actions that provided DED and related work authorization for certain Palestinians. Most provisions take effect on enactment and broadly restrict immigration relief and entry for persons tied to the specified Palestinian-administered territories or travel documents issued by the Palestinian Authority.