HR 1071
Advanced toward a vote
Bars from entry and makes deportable any foreign government official who, while serving in office, carried out an act against a U.S. citizen in the United States that would violate the First Amendment if a U.S. government official had done it.
Official title: No Censors on our Shores Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
06-FEB-2025
Referred
06-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
26-FEB-2025
Reported
09-APR-2026
On the calendar
09-APR-2026
- Adds a new ground of inadmissibility to Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act for foreign government officials responsible for such acts.
- Adds a matching ground of deportability to Section 237(a)(2) of the same Act.
- Covers acts against a U.S. citizen located in the United States, at any time, by a person who served as a foreign government official.
- Is titled the No Censors on our Shores Act of 2025.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (06-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Reported in House, 09-APR-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (House)
Immigration
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5 Republicans