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The bill aims to strengthen national security by barring or removing noncitizens tied to NDAA-designated foreign military or problematic entities using existing entity lists, but it risks broadly and vaguely sweeping in lawful residents and incidental workers, creating enforcement costs and uneven implementation.
Taxpayers and broader national security interests benefit because noncitizens employed by Chinese military companies or other NDAA-designated problematic foreign institutions can be denied admission or removed, reducing perceived espionage or technology-transfer risks.
Government agencies (DHS/State) and implementers benefit from relying on existing NDAA entity lists so they can act under the INA without creating new definitional processes or separate entity lists.
Immigrants — including lawful permanent residents and visa holders who previously worked for a named employer — could become inadmissible or deportable regardless of their personal conduct or how long ago the employment occurred, exposing many people to removal risk.
Immigrant workers with incidental or minimal ties (e.g., subcontractors, short-term contractors) and their employers and families could be swept up by a categorical bar, disrupting lawful employment and harming family livelihoods.
State and federal agencies, courts, contractors, and immigrants face vagueness and inconsistent implementation because the bill uses NDAA lists without embedding clear statutory criteria in the INA.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars admission and makes deportable any alien who currently or previously worked for entities designated under NDAA §1260H (Chinese military companies) or §1286 (problematic foreign institutions).
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for a limitation on approval of an immigrant petition on behalf of an alien who was previously employed by an entity on the Department of Defense's 1260H list.
Introduced June 10, 2026 by John Moolenaar · Last progress June 10, 2026
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make any alien inadmissible and deportable if they currently are or previously were employed by entities identified under two NDAA provisions: one listing "Chinese military companies" and one listing "foreign institutions engaged in problematic activity." The bars are categorical and apply regardless of when the employment occurred or the person's immigration status, with the bill referencing the entities as designated under those NDAA sections rather than defining them inside the INA. The change creates an employment-based, categorical immigration prohibition tied to lists created in prior defense legislation, shifting certain national-security-related employment history into automatic grounds for denial of admission and grounds for removal from the United States.