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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1434 

To render inadmissible to the United States aliens who have been convicted 

of a sex offense against a minor, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 7, 2011 

Mr. SHULER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To render inadmissible to the United States aliens who have 

been convicted of a sex offense against a minor, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Child 

5 Protection Act of 2011’’. 

6 SEC. 2. PREVENTING ADMISSION OF ALIENS CONVICTED 

7 OF SEX OFFENSES AGAINST MINORS. 

8 Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality 

9 Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the 

10 end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(J) SEX OFFENDERS.— 

2 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Any alien con3 victed of, or who admits having committed, 

4 or who admits committing acts which con5 stitute the essential elements of, a sex of6 fense is inadmissible. 

7 ‘‘(ii) DEFINITIONS.— 

8 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—For purposes 

9 of clause (i), the term ‘sex offense’ 

10 means a criminal offense, including a 

11 Federal offense, against a minor that 

12 involves any of the following: 

13 ‘‘(aa) Solicitation to engage 

14 in sexual conduct. 

15 ‘‘(bb) Use in a sexual per16 formance. 

17 ‘‘(cc) Solicitation to practice 

18 prostitution (whether for finan19 cial or other forms of remunera20 tion). 

21 ‘‘(dd) Video voyeurism as 

22 described in section 1801 of title 

23 18, United States Code. 


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1 ‘‘(ee) Possession, production, 

2 or distribution of child pornog3 raphy. 

4 ‘‘(ff) Criminal sexual con5 duct involving a minor, or the 

6 use of the Internet to facilitate or 

7 attempt such conduct. 

8 ‘‘(gg) Sex trafficking of chil9 dren as described in section 1591 

10 of title 18, United States Code. 

11 ‘‘(hh) Transporting a minor 

12 in interstate or foreign com13 merce, or in any commonwealth, 

14 territory, or possession of the 

15 United States, with intent that 

16 the individual engage in prostitu17 tion, or in any sexual activity for 

18 which any person can be charged 

19 with a criminal offense. 

20 ‘‘(ii) Any other conduct that 

21 by its nature is a sex offense 

22 against a minor. 

23 ‘‘(II) EXCEPTIONS.—The term 

24 ‘sex offense’ shall not include the fol25 lowing: 


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1 ‘‘(aa) A foreign conviction if 

2 it was not obtained with suffi3 cient safeguards for fundamental 

4 fairness and due process for the 

5 accused under guidelines or regu6 lations established under section 

7 112 of the Sex Offender Reg8 istration and Notification Act 

9 (title I of Public Law 109–248; 

10 42 U.S.C. 16911). 

11 ‘‘(bb) An offense involving 

12 consensual sexual conduct if the 

13 victim was at least 13 years old 

14 and the offender was not more 

15 than 4 years older than the vic16 tim. 

17 ‘‘(III) MINOR.—For purposes of 

18 subclause (I), the term ‘minor’ means 

19 an individual who has not attained the 

20 age of 18 years.’’. 

21 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

22 It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of 

23 Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Sec24 retary of State should work with law enforcement agencies 

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1 zations to establish information reporting mechanisms suf2 ficient to enable the implementation of the amendment 

3 made by section 2. 

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