Far-right Rep. Chip Roy targets Democratic Socialists of America in latest anti-immigrant bill aimed at GOP’s political opponents
Alex Woodward at The Independent:
A proposed bill from a top House Republican could be used to denaturalize U.S. citizens who “advocate” for socialism, including anyone who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America or any “affiliate” group, which includes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and dozens of public office holders across the country. Monday’s bill from Donald Trump ally and Republican Rep. Chip Roy, a leader in the far-right House Freedom Caucus, would radically expand the grounds for deporting, denying entry and stripping the citizenship of anyone in the country based on their real or perceived politics or ideology, echoing President Donald Trump’s attempts to “maximally pursue” denaturalization cases and remove tens of thousands of people from the U.S.
Roy’s bill — Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists, or MAMDANI Act — would amend the decades-old Immigration and Nationality Act to target any “alien” over “any membership, affiliation or advocacy of socialist, communist, Chinese communist, Marxist or Islamic fundamentalist doctrines.” Trump and his allies have repeatedly used citizenship and immigration law as a cudgel in the president’s government-wide deportation project, with administration officials and Republican members of Congress routinely threatening to strip citizenship from their political opponents. The Texas Republican’s latest escalation specifically targets Democratic Socialists of America, a political organizing group with more than 100,000 members, including Mamdani and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib.
The bill’s text also broadly implicates any other group that discusses socialism, communism or Marxism, echoing largely defunct Red Scare-era laws that sought to identify and remove any perceived communists from the country.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) proposes a fascistic anti-American law called the MAMDANI Law to deport and denaturalize those who advocate for “socialism”, “communism”, “Marxism”, or “Islamic fundamentalism.”
This bill is yet another attack on those opposed to Satan 47’s regime.
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The Bulwark (Will Saletan): Chip Roy’s Deportation Nation
