No Immigration Without Assimilation Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1]
Introduced
Summary
Mandatory assimilation likelihood screening would require immigration applicants to pass interviews and belief checks before receiving immigration benefits. It creates new inadmissibility and deportability grounds based on those assessments.
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- People applying for visas, green cards, or other immigration benefits would face an interview, review of their public statements, and possible interviews of relatives or acquaintances, and applications could be denied if they are judged incompatible or unlikely to assimilate.
- Noncitizens could be made deportable if officials determine they hold views incompatible with U.S. principles, are unlikely to assimilate, or would harm cultural cohesion.
- The Department of Homeland Security would conduct the screenings and coordinate with the Department of State on what counts as incompatible views, which the bill lists in nine categories including support for religious or political violence, putting religious law above U.S. law, rejecting the Constitution, or refusing to learn English.
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New assimilation screening for immigrants
If enacted, the bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to run a mandatory "assimilation likelihood" screening before any immigration benefit is granted. The screening would include an interview of the applicant, review of public statements, and, when feasible, interviews of relatives or others. The Secretary would have to deny any application if the applicant is found to hold views the bill lists as incompatible (for example, support for implementing religious law, justification of political or religious violence, rejecting constitutional rights or supremacy, preferring authoritarian government, or refusing to learn English), is unlikely to assimilate, or would harm U.S. cultural cohesion. The bill would also add those screening findings as legal grounds to bar admission or to deport people already in the United States. The bill defines an "immigration benefit application" to mean any application to get, change, adjust, or extend immigration status.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1]
SC • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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