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Rep. Chip Roy Introduces ‘MAMDANI Act’ Targeting Ideological Affiliations in Immigration Law

The proposal tests whether Congress can tie immigration status to ideology and faith without violating constitutional rights.

Overview

  • Roy introduced the MAMDANI Act on Monday, filing a House bill that names New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and seeks to rewrite parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
  • The bill would make non-citizens inadmissible, ineligible for naturalization, deportable, or denaturalizable for membership, affiliation, advocacy, or publishing material in support of socialism, communism, Marxism, Chinese communism, or Islamic fundamentalism.
  • It would bar judicial review of decisions under the act, which means deportation or loss of citizenship ordered under its provisions could not be appealed in court.
  • Roy promotes the measure as a response to a “Red-Green Alliance,” and he circulated bill materials through Breitbart while also running for Texas attorney general.
  • Reporters say the measure is unlikely to pass, with critics calling it a curb on free speech and religious freedom and conservative backers casting it as a national security tool.