Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act so that a non-citizen convicted of certain fraud offenses is barred from entering the country and can be deported. It adds the trigger to both the inadmissibility grounds in section 212(a)(2) and the deportability grounds in section 237(a)(2). The covered offenses include SNAP benefit fraud, Social Security number and card fraud, theft or bribery involving programs that receive federal funds, identification-document fraud, major fraud against the United States, mail and related fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. It also reaches any other offense that involves defrauding the government or the unlawful receipt of a federal, state, or local public benefit, plus conspiracy to commit any of the listed offenses. The bar applies to a non-citizen who has been convicted of, admits committing, or admits acts constituting the essential elements of these offenses. A non-citizen who falls under the new provisions is made ineligible for any relief under the immigration laws.

At least 9 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 12 quarterly reports filed by 9 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

1 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 3113, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Federation for American Immigration Reform; National Immigration Law Center (NILC); National Nurses United; Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP); American Civil Liberties Union. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 4 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.