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No Racketeers on our Shores Act
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the inadmissibility and deportability of aliens who engage in economic discrimination against United States persons, and for other purposes.
Summary
- Makes foreign government officials inadmissible to the United States if they engaged in economic discrimination against US persons while serving as government officials
- Defines economic discrimination as initiating investigations, enforcement actions, licensing determinations, fines, fees, tax assessments, or other regulatory or administrative burdens that are more severe, more frequent, or less procedurally favorable against US persons than against similarly situated non-US persons
- Makes foreign government officials deportable from the United States if they engaged in economic discrimination against US persons while serving as government officials
- Applies to discriminatory actions that are individually or taken together more severe, more frequent, or less procedurally favorable, meaning a pattern of discriminatory actions can trigger inadmissibility or deportability
- Covers a broad range of official actions including investigations, enforcement actions, licensing determinations, fines, tax assessments, and other legal or regulatory burdens
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Sponsor (1)
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![Rep. Baumgartner, Michael [R-WA-5]](https://media.civicgate.org/people/d/politicians/B001322.thumb.jpg)
Rep. Baumgartner, Michael (R-WA) [#5]
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Michael Baumgartner’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- Employer not reported $74,576
- CAPITOL VENTURE LLC $8,600
- BASALT CELLARS $7,600
- MICROSOFT $7,121
- SUNSHINE HEALTH FACILITIES, INC $6,735
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Michael Baumgartner → · Outside spending →
Actions (4)
- Sep 16, 2026 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 15 - 8. · house
- Sep 16, 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
- Jul 22, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Jul 22, 2026 Introduced in House
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Text versions (1)
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Committee action
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As published:RC #2 - Vote on Final Passage of HR 9834, as amended
Meetings where this bill was on the agenda
Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 22, 2026
Mr. Baumgartner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the inadmissibility and deportability of aliens who engage in economic discrimination against United States persons, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “No Racketeers on our Shores Act”.
SEC. 2. INADMISSIBILITY AND DEPORTABILITY OF ALIENS WHO ENGAGE IN ECONOMIC DISCRIMINATION.
(a) Inadmissibility.—Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(J) Economic discrimination.—Any alien who, while serving as a government official of any foreign government, initiates, directs, conducts, engages in, or issues one or more investigations, enforcement actions, licensing determinations, fines, fees, tax assessments, or other legal, regulatory, or administrative burdens against a United States person that are, individually or taken together, more severe, more frequent, or less procedurally favorable than those initiated, directed, conducted, engaged in, or issued against a similarly situated party that is not a United States person, is inadmissible.”.
(b) Deportability.—Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(G) Economic discrimination.—Any alien who, while serving as a government official of any foreign government, initiates, directs, conducts, engages in, or issues one or more investigations, enforcement actions, licensing determinations, fines, fees, tax assessments, or other legal, regulatory, or administrative burdens against a United States person that are, individually or taken together, more severe, more frequent, or less procedurally favorable than those initiated, directed, conducted, engaged in, or issued against a similarly situated party that is not a United States person, is deportable.”. <all>
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