FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—In America, as a naturalized citizen, you can commit and be convicted of terrorist offenses and be allowed to stay in the country, only to later commit another attack. This GOP congresswoman wants to put an end to this, telling them to GTFO.

In response to two major terrorist attacks by naturalized citizens this year, Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, just introduced the Getting Terrorist Fanatics Out (GTFO) Act. Her new piece of national security legislation will require denaturalization of any naturalized citizen convicted of terrorism or for supporting a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

“When naturalized citizens are convicted of terrorism or supporting groups that kill Americans, they have forfeited their right to citizenship—we should have zero tolerance for these individuals,” Van Duyne told the Daily Signal.

On March 12, 2026, America was hit with two deadly terrorist attacks, committed by naturalized citizens with terrorism ties.

The first deadly attack occurred at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. The attacker, 36-year-old Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guardsman who had been sentenced to 11 years in prison because of his ISIS ties, was out on early release. Jalloh opened fire on an ROTC class, fatally shooting instructor Lt. Col. Brandon Shah. Jalloh was subdued and killed by ROTC cadets defending their classroom.

Hours later, 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali committed a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Ghazali rammed a pickup truck into a synagogue while over 100 children were inside. Ghazali had been previously flagged in a U.S. terror database for having ties to Hezbollah members. Israel claims one of those was his brother, a Hezbollah commander killed days earlier in an Israeli airstrike.

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Following the attacks, Van Duyne responded quickly, promising to write the GTFO Act.

Outstanding news as the Antifa ringleader of the attack on the Alvarado ICE Detention Center is sentenced to 100 years for attempted murder of federal law enforcement officers!

All of these domestic terrorists must receive the maximum sentence possible to send a message that… pic.twitter.com/9xxlLvZB65

— Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (@RepBethVanDuyne) June 23, 2026

“They should not be here, and if we don’t already have a law on that, I’m telling you, I’m going to enact it right now,” the congresswoman promised on “The Will Cain Show” the day of the attacks.

“The GTFO Act requires courts to include mandatory denaturalization in sentencing, ensuring that those who use American citizenship to undermine our safety, poison our communities, and kill our citizens can never hide behind it again,” she told the Daily Signal.

The bill would specifically void the certificate of naturalization of any naturalized citizen convicted by a U.S. court of planning, committing, supporting, training, or assisting terrorists to carry out an attack. Their citizenship would be revoked, and they would be deported.

As a naturalized citizen, “it is a privilege to be here, not a right,” Van Duyne told Cain.

The GTFO Act already has three co-sponsors: Republican Reps. Greg Steube of Florida and Ronny Jackson and Brandon Gill of Texas.