Bill bans people from 40 countries from entering the United States.
H.R. 9710 — Third World Immigration Moratorium Act · Filed by Nancy Mace (R-SC) · Introduced Jul 15, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill stops people from 40 named countries from coming to the U.S. These countries include Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Haiti, and most of sub-Saharan Africa. The Secretary of Homeland Security can let some people in. Athletes at big sports events may enter. The State Department must report every 180 days on the ban.
Who it affects
The bill affects people from those 40 countries who want to come here. It limits refugees and people seeking safety. It also affects the Secretary of Homeland Security.
One thing to notice
The Secretary of Homeland Security can let people in without clear rules. One official decides who gets in.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 15, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 15, 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
4 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 4 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,002,500 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 5 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 72% of bills with any report.
Nancy Mace, who sponsored the bill, received $8,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Union Pacific Corporation — $930,000 in 1 report
- Holland & Knight Llp (on Behalf of the City of Phoenix, Az) — $40,000 in 1 report
- Alaska Airlines, Inc. — $22,500 in 1 report
- Presbyterian Villages of Michigan — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Secretary of Homeland Security — The government official in charge of borders and who comes in.
- refugees — People who flee their home country because of danger or harm.
- report — A written or spoken account of facts about something.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,179 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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