To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that members of Hamas (commonly known as the Islamic Resistance Movement) be considered to be engaged in a terrorist activity and ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission into the United States.

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that members of Hamas (commonly known as the Islamic Resistance Movement) be considered to be engaged in a terrorist activity and ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission into the United States.

[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1279 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1279

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that members of 
Hamas (commonly known as the Islamic Resistance Movement) be considered 
 to be engaged in a terrorist activity and ineligible to receive visas 
          and excluded from admission into the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 1993

   Mr. Deutsch (for himself, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, and Mr. 
   Saxton) 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 that members of 
Hamas (commonly known as the Islamic Resistance Movement) be considered 
 to be engaged in a terrorist activity and ineligible to receive visas 
          and excluded from admission into the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TERRORIST ACTIVITIES.

    Section 212(a)(3)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)(i)) is amended by adding at the end ``An alien who 
is a member, officer, official, representative, or spokesperson of 
Hamas (commonly known as the Islamic Resistance Movement) is 
considered, for purposes of this Act, to be engaged in a terrorist 
activity.''.

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