Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Monday introduced an immigration bill he dubbed the "MAMDANI Act."
The Measures Against Marxism's Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists Act proposes amending the Immigration and Nationality Act, which dictates federal immigration law, to allow for the deportation, denaturalization, denial of citizenship or entry to any migrant that is a member of a socialist party, communist party, the Chinese Communist Party or Islamic fundamentalist party.
It also proposes imposing such restrictions on any migrant who "advocates" for socialism, communism, Marxism or Islamic fundamentalism, a sweeping term that includes "writing, districting, circulating, printing, displaying, possessing, or publishing any written, electronic, or printed matter" in support of those ideologies, according to the bill's text.
The acronym for the bill is a reference to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), a democratic socialist who was born in Uganda and moved to the city as a child. Mamdani, who is Muslim, became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2018.
The Hill has reached out to Mamdani's office for comment.
In a press release, Roy asked why the U.S. continues "to import people who hate us?" in reference to those who support the ideologies targeted by his bill.
"Not just for the last six years, but for the last 60 years, our immigration system has been cynically used to disadvantage American workers' competitiveness in favor of mass-importing the third world," added the Texas Republican, who is running for state Attorney General. "This has not just led to higher crime and lower wages, but also the promulgation of hostile ideologies fundamentally opposed to American values."
"By targeting the Red-Green Alliance, this legislation deploys new tools to fight back against the Marxist and Islamist advance that has devastated Europe and has now arrived on our doorstep, especially in my home state of Texas," he added.
Under the bill, migrants who can establish that their advocacy for one of the listed ideologies occurred before they turned 14 years old are exempt from the restrictions.
As for those deemed part of an "Islamic fundamentalist party," the bill lists the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State, the Al-Nour Party, Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab as falling under that category.
There were an estimated 3.45 million Muslims in the U.S. as of 2017, according to the Pew Research Center.
Back in October, Roy introduced the Sharia-Free America Act, which proposes preventing foreign nationals who observe Sharia law from entering the U.S. or remaining in the country.