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Introduced August 1, 2025 by Cory Anthony Booker · Last progress August 1, 2025
The bill gives the U.S. stronger tools to freeze assets and bar travel for actors linked to violence against West Bank civilians while protecting humanitarian aid, at the cost of increased compliance burdens, risks of overreach and individual harms from visa actions, and potential diplomatic friction.
US taxpayers and the federal government: the bill authorizes freezing assets of foreign actors who threaten West Bank civilians, reducing those actors' ability to fund further violence.
Immigrants and foreign individuals linked to violence or displacement in the West Bank: the bill bars designated persons from entering the United States or obtaining visas, preventing travel to the U.S. by those tied to harmful activity.
Civilians receiving aid and humanitarian organizations: the bill exempts humanitarian goods and transactions (food, medicine, medical devices), preserving delivery of essential assistance.
Taxpayers and lawful international commerce: the bill's broad designation criteria risk overreach and could lead to sanctioning individuals or entities with tenuous links, harming legitimate commerce or diplomatic relations.
US persons and businesses: companies and individuals may face legal and compliance costs and transaction restrictions when dealing with designated foreign persons or their affiliates.
Immigrants and people with historical or disputed ties: immediate visa revocations or bans could affect individuals whose designation circumstances are contested, causing sudden family or business disruption.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs the President to block assets and bar visas/admission for foreign persons responsible for or supporting violence, displacement, property seizures, or terrorism in the West Bank, with limited humanitarian and intelligence exceptions.
Requires the President to impose targeted sanctions on foreign persons who are responsible for or complicit in violence, coercion, forced displacement, property seizures, terrorism, or actions that threaten peace and stability in the West Bank. Sanctions include blocking assets and prohibiting transactions under U.S. emergency economic authorities, declaring such aliens inadmissible and ineligible for visas or admission, and revoking existing visas—while allowing limited exceptions for authorized U.S. intelligence activities and for humanitarian assistance and related transactions.