HR 30
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
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Bill overview
This bill changes immigration law to make certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens) inadmissible to the United States and deportable. Specifically, it expands the list of crimes that can lead to inadmissibility or deportation to include sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, and violations of protection orders. The bill clarifies that a pattern of coercive behavior within close relationships can also be considered domestic violence for these purposes.
Key provisions
- Expands inadmissibility grounds to include sex offenses and conspiracy to commit sex offenses.
- Expands deportability grounds to include sex offenses and conspiracy to commit sex offenses.
- Adds domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, and protection order violations as grounds for inadmissibility and deportability.
- Includes a pattern of coercive behavior within close relationships as a form of domestic violence.
- Defines ‘domestic violence’ more broadly to include crimes covered under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
- Clarifies the definition of protection order violations for inadmissibility and deportability.
Who is affected
- Non-U.S. nationals (aliens)
- Individuals convicted of sex offenses
- Individuals subject to domestic violence protection orders
- Parents and victims of child abuse or neglect
- Immigration attorneys and legal professionals
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 30
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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.
This Act may be cited as the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
.
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:
a crime of domestic violence (as such term is defined in section 237(a)(2)(E));
a crime of stalking;
a crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment; or
is inadmissible.
Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is amended—
in the heading, by striking crimes against children and
and inserting and crimes against children
; and
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
by adding at the end the following: