Congress moves to strip court review from deportations based on political beliefs.
H.R. 8387 — Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists Act of 2026 · Filed by Chip Roy (R-TX) · 9 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 20, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill amends immigration law to bar admission, naturalization, and citizenship to any alien who is or was a member of, affiliated with, or advocates for socialist, communist, Chinese communist, Marxist, or Islamic fundamentalist parties or doctrines. It also makes such aliens deportable and allows revocation of citizenship already granted. The bill eliminates judicial review of these determinations and removes longstanding exceptions for involuntary membership or membership before age 16.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core mechanism is to expand grounds for excluding, deporting, and denaturalizing aliens based on ideological affiliation or advocacy, while stripping judicial oversight. It is not a market-driven measure but a political-speech and due-process restriction.
What the text implies
- Retroactive application: aliens can be deported or denaturalized for advocacy or membership that occurred before the bill's enactment, creating legal jeopardy for past conduct that was lawful at the time.
- Overbroad definitions: 'socialism' and 'Marxism' are defined to include any advocacy for worker control, class analysis, or redistribution—potentially capturing mainstream political speech, academic discourse, and labor organizing.
- Chilling effect on speech: the bill criminalizes writing, publishing, or possessing materials that advocate for named ideologies, affecting journalists, scholars, and activists.
- No judicial review: the 'nonreviewability' clauses strip courts of authority to review determinations, eliminating due process and creating unreviewable executive power.
- Denaturalization without time limit: removal of the 'five-year' window for revocation means citizenship can be stripped decades after naturalization based on past conduct.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill strips judicial review from immigration determinations, eliminating a core democratic check on executive power and leaving individuals with no recourse to challenge government decisions. It also criminalizes political speech and association retroactively, chilling First Amendment expression and creating legal jeopardy for citizens and residents based on past or present ideological affiliation or advocacy.
Named in the bill
Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 212(a)(3)(D), Section 237(a)(4), Section 313, Section 340(c), Section 101(a), Attorney General, Communist Party of the United States, Democratic Socialists of America, Communist Party of China, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas — and 1 more
Where it stands
9 cosponsors: 9 Republicans.
- Apr 20, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 20, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $10,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 25 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Chip Roy, the sponsor, reported $68,100 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- A New Policy Inc. — $10,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 14, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (17,363 characters) on Nov 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,927 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 14, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-02.
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