S. 158

119 S158 IS: Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
 U.S. Senate
 2025-01-21
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 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.
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(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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