Title: Voice for Victims Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Voice for Victims Act
This bill requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reestablish the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement Office, which shall provide services to the victims of crimes committed by removable non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law).
(An office with a similar name, the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, was launched in April 2017 and was shut down in June 2021.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4644 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4644

  To reestablish the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement Office to 
   provide proactive, timely, adequate, and professional services to 
victims of crimes committed by removable aliens and the family members 
                            of such victims.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2022

Mr. Tillis (for himself and Mr. Hagerty) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To reestablish the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement Office to 
   provide proactive, timely, adequate, and professional services to 
victims of crimes committed by removable aliens and the family members 
                            of such victims.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Voice for Victims Act''.

SEC. 2. VICTIMS OF IMMIGRANT CRIME ENGAGEMENT OFFICE.

    (a) Reestablishment.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
direct the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take 
all appropriate and lawful action to reestablish, within U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Victims of Immigrant Crime 
Engagement Office (referred to in this Act as the ``VOICE Office'', 
which shall provide proactive, timely, adequate, and professional 
services to victims of crimes committed by removable aliens and the 
family members of such victims.
    (b) Quarterly Reports.--The VOICE Office shall submit quarterly 
reports to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, the 
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives that examine 
the effects of the victimization of United States nationals by criminal 
aliens who are present in the United States.
    (c) Expansion of Functions of Citizenship and Immigration Services 
Ombudsman To Include Assistance for Victims of Crimes Committed by 
Aliens or Border Violence.--Section 452(b) of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 272(b)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs 
        (3) and (4), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) to work with the Victims of Immigrant Crime 
        Engagement Office to assist individuals and families who have 
        been the victims of crimes committed by aliens or violence near 
        the United States border;''; and
            (3) in paragraph (4), as redesignated, by striking ``(2)'' 
        and inserting ``(3)''.
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