“TOUGHEST BAN In America” – Republican Governor Signs Legislation Prohibiting “Foreign Adversaries” From Buying Land

By Danielle

Texas has become the latest state to prohibit individuals or companies from adversarial countries to purchase land and real estate.

Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 17, which bans property purchases in Texas by individuals or groups from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

The legislation applies to agricultural, commercial, residential, and other properties.

“I signed into law the TOUGHEST BAN in America to keep foreign adversaries off Texas soil,” Abbott said.

“Hostile foreign nations like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are prohibited from buying or owning land in Texas,” he added.

Fox News provided further details:

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 17 into law over the weekend, prohibiting countries identified as security threats in the intelligence community’s 2025 Annual Threat Assessment, from acquiring “real property” in the state. The countries include China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, and the bill identified “real property” as agricultural land, commercial or industrial properties, residential properties and land used for mining or water use.

Amid heightened global tensions, there has been an increased appetite for protecting foreign asset acquisitions in the United States. However, these efforts have been criticized by some for being overly broad, arbitrary and potentially discriminatory.

In response to Abbott’s signing of S.B. 17, the nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice said it was “outraged” at the legislation that the group said “creates an overly broad net that places innocent foreign nationals at risk of racial profiling.”

A similar defense was made by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs after she vetoed a bill seeking to stop Chinese land and property purchases in the state, noting the bill lacked “clear implementation criteria,” which opened the door for “arbitrary enforcement.” Hobbs, following backlash over her veto, subsequently described the bill as “a watered-down, weak-on-China bill,” noting it allowed the communist country to purchase land near military bases for up to three years at a time, and followed up this month with her own version of the bill.

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