Republican lawmakers are escalating efforts to shield American neighborhoods and farmland from foreign influence, with Rep.
Chip Roy of Texas unveiling a new bill to bar members of the Chinese Communist Party, radical Islamist organizations, and other designated adversaries from buying homes and real estate in the United States.
According to the Gateway Pundit, Roy announced the legislation, arguing that American property must not become a tool for hostile regimes seeking to erode the nations security and sovereignty from within. The proposal would explicitly block individuals tied to the Chinese Communist Party, Islamist groups, or other foreign adversaries from purchasing residential property on U.S. soil, reflecting growing conservative concern over foreign encroachment in the housing market.
American homes belong to American families not the Chinese Communist Party, foreign Islamists, or our geopolitical foes, Roy told the Daily Caller. While Americans struggle to afford housing, hostile regimes are buying up our land and neighborhoods.
This bill slams the door on foreign adversaries owning American housing and forces them to sell what they already control, Roy added. Were putting Americas homes back in American hands.
Housing affordability has become a pressing concern for families squeezed by high prices, limited inventory, and inflationary pressures, even as foreign buyers particularly from China continue to acquire homes and farmland in strategically sensitive areas. Conservatives have long warned that this trend not only distorts local markets but also hands leverage over critical resources to governments openly hostile to American interests.
The Daily Caller reports that as of the end of 2024, foreign ownership in America totaled almost 46 million acres of land and over $86 billion in value, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under Roys legislation, up to 338,000 acres of that land owned by foreign adversaries could be eligible for divestiture, totaling up to $1.1 billion in property, according to documents reviewed by the Caller.
Roys home state of Texas, a conservative stronghold, has one of the highest levels of foreign land ownership, with over 5.6 million acres reportedly in non-American hands. If the bill becomes law, land in 20 Texas counties totaling up to 124,000 acres could be subject to forced divestiture, according to the same documents.
The Texas congressman has also advanced a broader effort to confront hostile ideologies through immigration law with the Measures Against Marxisms Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists (MAMDANI) Act. That legislation would significantly expand enforcement tools by permitting the deportation, denaturalization, denial of entry, or denial of citizenship to any alien who is a member of or advocates for socialist, communist, Chinese Communist Party, or Islamic fundamentalist ideologies.
The MAMDANI Act, introduced in April, is aimed squarely at individuals who reject American constitutional principles and seek to import doctrines fundamentally at odds with ordered liberty and national cohesion. The bills name is a pointed reference to New York City lawmaker Zohran Mamdani, a naturalized U.S. citizen and self-described democratic socialist, underscoring Roys critique of the radical lefts growing influence.
Roys office has cast both measures as vital national security initiatives designed to close loopholes that have allowed foreign adversaries to gain footholds in American communities through real estate purchases and lax immigration standards. At a time when President Trumps second administration is emphasizing border security, economic nationalism, and the defense of traditional American values, these proposals reflect a broader conservative push to ensure that the nations land, laws, and institutions remain firmly in American not adversarial hands.
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