House Passes Bill to Ban Immigration for Hamas Involvement

The House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday, aimed at banning anyone linked to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel from immigrating to the United States. It’s interesting, really, to see such rare bipartisan support on an issue that usually drives a wedge between the two parties, especially within the Democratic ranks.

This Republican-led bill, titled the No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025, was introduced by Representative Tom McClintock from California.

The House voted unanimously during a voice vote, meaning everyone backed it without individual tallying. McClintock expressed a sense of unity among lawmakers: “There are still several things we can unite on in this institution, and one of them is opposition to Hamas and the terrorism it inflicted on Israeli civilians over two years ago,” he shared with FOX News Digital. He also drew a parallel, saying, “This puts them in the same category as Holocaust Nazi collaborators, who are also mentioned in the Immigration and Nationality Act.”

The bill is now headed to the Senate, where a similar initiative was proposed earlier by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.). McClintock hopes the Senate will consider it, although he acknowledged that it previously passed the House without further action from the Senate.

He remarked, “We hope that the House’s repeated actions to pass this bill will prompt the Senate to take up this bill this year and send it to the President. This is important for two reasons: One, it prevents a future Joe Biden from admitting such people, and it gives a future President Donald Trump the power to keep them out.”

Essentially, the bill would alter current U.S. immigration laws to bar any foreign national involved in the October 7 attack—from planning to supporting it—from entering the U.S. Additionally, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad will be added to the list of designated terrorist organizations whose members cannot enter the country.

This legislative move follows the arrest of Mahmoud Amin Yaqub al-Muftadi, a Gazan living in Louisiana, for his suspected role in the October attack.