Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

Bill: 119-s-158
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-21
Policy area: Immigration
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act</strong></p><p>This bill establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U.S. nationals (<em>aliens </em>under federal law) inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U.S. national is deportable.</p><p>First, the bill establishes that a non-U.S. national is inadmissible if the individual has admitted to or is convicted of acts constituting the essential elements of stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, a sex offense, conspiracy to commit a sex offense, a violation of certain protection orders, or domestic violence (including physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Next, the bill establishes additional grounds for deportation. Under current law, a non-U.S. national is deportable for certain criminal convictions, including domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse. The bill makes any sex offense (including crimes against minors) or conspiracy to commit a sex offense a basis for deportation. The bill also expands the domestic violence crimes that make a non-U.S. national deportable to include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 158 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 21, 2025 Mrs. Blackburn introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of, or who have committed, sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act . 2. Inadmissibility and deportability related to sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, or violation of protection order (a) Inadmissibility Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (J) Sex offenses Any alien who has been convicted of, who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a sex offense (as such term is defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 ( 34 U.S.C. 20911(5) )), or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, is inadmissible. (K) Domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, or violation of protection order Any alien who has been convicted of, who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of— (i) a crime of domestic violence (as such term is defined in section 237(a)(2)(E)); (ii) a crime of stalking; (iii) a crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment; or (iv) a crime of violating the portion of a protection order (as such term is defined in section 237(a)(2)(E)) that involves protection against credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury to the person or persons for whom the protection order was issued, is inadmissible. . (b) Deportability Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (E)— (A) in the heading, by striking crimes against children and and inserting and crimes against children ; and (B) in clause (i), by inserting before the period at the end the following , and includes any crime that constitutes domestic violence, as such term is defined in section 40002(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ( 34 U.S.C. 12291(a) ), regardless of whether the jurisdiction receives grant funding under that Act ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (G) Sex offenses Any alien who has been convicted of a sex offense (as such term is defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 ( 34 U.S.C. 20911(5) )) or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, is deportable. .