Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, introduced legislation Monday aimed at barring the admission, naturalization, and continued residence of individuals affiliated with certain extremist or totalitarian ideologies.
The Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists (MAMDANI) Act would amend federal immigration law to prohibit admission or naturalization into the country of any alien who is, or has been, a member or advocate of various extreme groups, Breitbart first reported.
This includes “any alien who is a member of a socialist party, a communist party, the Chinese Communist Party, or Islamic fundamentalist party, or advocates for socialism, communism, Marxism, or Islamic fundamentalism,” according to a news release posted on Roy’s legislative website.
The bill’s name is a reference to socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“Across the world, openly socialist governments have given mass amnesty to millions of invading Muslims, resulting in horrific crimes targeting Christians, and terrorist attacks in the name of jihad,” Roy told The Daily Signal.
“While the Muslim Brotherhood has long sought to export its barbarism to the U.S., by implementing the MAMDANI Act we can forcefully fight back against the Marxist and Islamist invasion of our country.”
Among other action items, the legislation would establish new grounds for deportation. Under the measure, an alien could be removed from the United States for advocating for Marxist and Islamist ideologies, or for promoting them through written or electronic material.
In addition, the bill states that determinations made under the act would be final, preventing individuals who are denaturalized or deported from challenging the decision.
Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, said the legislation represents an initial step toward fixing our “broken immigration system.”
“For decades, America has imported people who hate our country, reject our culture, and seek to replace Western values with Marxism, socialism, and Islamism,” Self told The Daily Signal.
“It’s time to pass the MAMDANI Act, secure our borders, and send a clear message: those who want to destroy our civilization are not welcome here.”
Roy and other supporters point to recent violent crimes by individuals previously convicted of terrorism-related offenses as evidence of systemic failures in immigration enforcement.
In March, Mohamed Jalloh killed a member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Old Dominion University. Jalloh had been indicted and sentenced to federal prison in 2017 but was released in 2021 after his attorney argued that he had renounced prior ties to ISIS.