(b) SECTION 202.—The amendments made by sec-
tion 202 shall take effect upon the date of the enactment 
of this Act, and sections 235 and 236 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, as amended, shall apply to any alien 
in detention under provisions of such sections on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Subtitle B—Removal of Alien Gang 
Members 
SEC. 211. RENDERING INADMISSIBLE AND DEPORTABLE 
ALIENS 
PARTICIPATING 
IN 
CRIMINAL 
STREET GANGS. 
(a) INADMISSIBLE.—Section 212(a)(2) of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(J) CRIMINAL STREET GANG PARTICIPA-
TION.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Any alien is inad-
missible if— 
‘‘(I) the alien has been removed 
under section 237(a)(2)(F); or 
‘‘(II) the consular officer or the 
Secretary 
of 
Homeland 
Security 
knows, or has reasonable ground to 
believe that the alien— 
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‘‘(aa) is a member of a 
criminal street gang and has 
committed, conspired, or threat-
ened to commit, or seeks to enter 
the United States to engage sole-
ly, principally, or incidentally in, 
a gang crime or any other unlaw-
ful activity; or 
‘‘(bb) is a member of a 
criminal street gang designated 
under section 219A. 
‘‘(ii) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of 
this subparagraph: 
‘‘(I) CRIMINAL STREET GANG.— 
The term ‘criminal street gang’ means 
a formal or informal group or associa-
tion of 3 or more individuals, who 
commit 2 or more gang crimes (one of 
which is a crime of violence, as de-
fined in section 16 of title 18, United 
States Code) in 2 or more separate 
criminal episodes in relation to the 
group or association. 
‘‘(II) GANG
CRIME.—The term 
‘gang crime’ means conduct consti-
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tuting any Federal or State crime, 
punishable by imprisonment for one 
year or more, in any of the following 
categories: 
‘‘(aa) A crime of violence (as 
defined in section 16 of title 18, 
United States Code). 
‘‘(bb) A crime involving ob-
struction of justice, tampering 
with or retaliating against a wit-
ness, victim, or informant, or 
burglary. 
‘‘(cc) A crime involving the 
manufacturing, importing, dis-
tributing, possessing with intent 
to distribute, or otherwise dealing 
in a controlled substance or listed 
chemical (as those terms are de-
fined in section 102 of the Con-
trolled 
Substances 
Act 
(21 
U.S.C. 802)). 
‘‘(dd) Any conduct punish-
able under section 844 of title 
18, United States Code (relating 
to 
explosive 
materials), 
sub-
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section (d), (g)(1) (where the un-
derlying conviction is a violent 
felony (as defined in section 
924(e)(2)(B) of such title) or is a 
serious drug offense (as defined 
in section 924(e)(2)(A)), (i), (j), 
(k), (o), (p), (q), (u), or (x) of 
section 922 of such title (relating 
to unlawful acts), or subsection 
(b), (c), (g), (h), (k), (l), (m), or 
(n) of section 924 of such title 
(relating to penalties), section 
930 of such title (relating to pos-
session of firearms and dan-
gerous weapons in Federal facili-
ties), section 931 of such title 
(relating to purchase, ownership, 
or possession of body armor by 
violent felons), sections 1028 and 
1029 of such title (relating to 
fraud and related activity in con-
nection with identification docu-
ments or access devices), section 
1952 of such title (relating to 
interstate and foreign travel or 
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transportation in aid of racket-
eering enterprises), section 1956 
of such title (relating to the laun-
dering of monetary instruments), 
section 1957 of such title (relat-
ing to engaging in monetary 
transactions in property derived 
from specified unlawful activity), 
or sections 2312 through 2315 of 
such title (relating to interstate 
transportation of stolen motor ve-
hicles or stolen property). 
‘‘(ee) Any conduct punish-
able under section 274 (relating 
to bringing in and harboring cer-
tain aliens), section 277 (relating 
to aiding or assisting certain 
aliens 
to 
enter 
the 
United 
States), or section 278 (relating 
to importation of alien for im-
moral purpose) of this Act.’’. 
(b) DEPORTABLE.—Section 237(a)(2) of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
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