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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9834 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9834

    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.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2026

 Mr. Baumgartner introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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.''.
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No Racketeers on our Shores Act

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