Official Summaries

Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

This bill establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U.S. national is deportable.

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).  

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.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 158 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 158

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.


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                   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

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                                 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.

    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 ``Preventing Violence Against Women by 
Illegal Aliens Act''.

SEC. 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.''.
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