The United States has never required immigrants to pass an ideological test to become citizens. It has never made political belief a deportable offense. It has never stripped courts of the ability to review government decisions to remove people from the country. The Mamdani Act would do all three. And it would do them in a single piece of legislation named after a sitting elected American mayor, introduced for the explicit purpose of using federal immigration law as a weapon against a political opponent.

Representative Chip Roy's bill would make any noncitizen who advocates for, affiliates with, or holds membership in socialist, communist, Marxist, or Islamic fundamentalist organizations inadmissible, deportable, denaturalizable, and ineligible for citizenship. It would create new deportation grounds for noncitizens already living in the United States based on their political beliefs and associations. And it would strip every federal court in the country of the ability to review any determination made under its provisions. Deportation. Denaturalization. Inadmissibility. Final. No appeal. No judicial review. No recourse.

That is not a tough immigration policy. That is the elimination of due process for an entire class of people based on their political beliefs.

The First Amendment exists precisely to prevent the government from punishing people for what they think and believe. It protects political speech and political association. It does not contain an exception for unpopular ideologies or political philosophies the government finds threatening. A law that makes advocacy for democratic socialism a deportable offense is a law that makes political belief a crime. Senator Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a democratic socialist. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the man this bill is named after, is a democratic socialist who was elected by the voters of the largest city in the United States. The Mamdani Act makes no distinction between democratic socialism and authoritarian communism. That is not an oversight. It is the point.

The elimination of judicial review is the most dangerous provision in this bill. Every American, citizen or not, who faces a government decision that affects their fundamental rights has the constitutional right to have that decision reviewed by an independent court. That right is not a procedural technicality. It is the mechanism by which every other right is protected. A government that can deport people for their political beliefs without any court being able to say otherwise is not a government operating under the rule of law. It is a government that has placed itself above the law.

America has always been a nation where people with different political beliefs can live, work, contribute, and become citizens. That has included people whose political philosophies are far more radical than democratic socialism. The idea that we can test the political beliefs of would-be Americans and turn away those whose views displease the current administration is not a conservative idea or a liberal idea. It is an authoritarian idea. And it becomes more dangerous with every administration that holds power, because the ideology being targeted today is never the last one.

Sign this petition to demand Congress reject the Mamdani Act and any legislation that makes political belief or association grounds for deportation or denial of citizenship, restore and protect judicial review for all immigration and denaturalization decisions, and affirm that ideological litmus tests for admission and citizenship are incompatible with the First Amendment and American democratic values.