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Preventing Intelligence Gathering from Foreign Adversaries Act

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to include subjection to a foreign intelligence security law as a ground of inadmissibility and deportability.

Introduced Jul 16, 2025

Latest action (Jul 16, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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Foreign PolicyImmigration

Summary

  • Amends immigration law to establish inadmissibility for aliens who are subject to a foreign country's law requiring them to provide access to, cooperation with, or support for that country's intelligence-gathering activities or operations.
  • Amends immigration law to establish deportability for aliens who are subject to a foreign country's law requiring them to provide access to, cooperation with, or support for that country's intelligence-gathering activities or operations.
  • Applies these grounds of inadmissibility and deportability to any foreign country with such intelligence security laws, regardless of the country's relationship with the United States.

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Actions (2)

  1. Jul 16, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
  2. Jul 16, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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  • Introduced in Senate · Jul 16, 2025

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Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 16, 2025

Mr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to include subjection to a foreign intelligence security law as a ground of inadmissibility and deportability.

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 “Preventing Intelligence Gathering from Foreign Adversaries Act”.

SEC. 2. SUBJECTION TO FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SECURITY LAW AS GROUNDS OF INADMISSIBILITY AND DEPORTABILITY.

(a) Inadmissibility.—Section 212(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(H) Subjection to foreign intelligence security law.—Any alien who is subject to a law of any foreign country that requires such alien to provide access to, cooperation with, or support for, the intelligence- gathering activities or operations of such county is inadmissible.”.

(b) Deportability.—Section 237(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(G) Subjection to foreign intelligence security law.—Any alien who is subject to a law of any foreign country that requires such alien to provide access to, cooperation with, or support for, the intelligence- gathering activities or operations of such county is deportable.”. <all>

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