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.
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act expands immigration consequences for sex offenses and domestic-violence-related conduct. It amends the Immigration and Nationality Act's inadmissibility grounds so a noncitizen is inadmissible if convicted of, or if the person admits committing or admits acts constituting the essential elements of, a sex offense as defined in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, including conspiracy to commit such an offense. It also makes noncitizens inadmissible for convictions or admissions involving domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, or violations of the portion of a protection order that protects against credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury. On deportability, it broadens the domestic-violence provision by tying domestic violence to the Violence Against Women Act definition regardless of whether the jurisdiction receives VAWA grant funding, and it adds a separate deportability ground for sex-offense convictions and sex-offense conspiracies.
Who Benefits and How
Domestic-violence survivors, stalking victims, child-abuse victims, people protected by qualifying protection orders, immigration officers screening admission applications, ICE enforcement staff, immigration judges, and prosecutors in removal proceedings benefit because the bill gives immigration agencies explicit statutory grounds to deny admission or pursue removal when covered conduct is proven by conviction or qualifying admission. The bill also clarifies that sex offenses and conspiracies to commit them trigger immigration consequences under the Adam Walsh Act definition.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Noncitizens convicted of covered sex offenses, noncitizens admitting conduct that meets sex-offense elements, noncitizens convicted of domestic violence, noncitizens convicted of stalking, noncitizens convicted of child abuse or neglect, noncitizens who violate qualifying protection orders, immigration defense attorneys, DHS immigration officers, ICE trial attorneys, and immigration courts bear burdens because the bill expands inadmissibility and deportability grounds, allows immigration consequences based on certain admitted conduct, and requires adjudicators to apply Adam Walsh Act, INA, VAWA, and protection-order definitions in admission and removal cases.
Key Provisions
- Adds inadmissibility for sex-offense convictions, sex-offense admissions, and sex-offense conspiracy under the Adam Walsh Act definition.
- Adds inadmissibility for domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, and qualifying protection-order violations.
- Broadens INA deportability language for crimes of domestic violence by cross-referencing the Violence Against Women Act definition regardless of grant funding.
- Adds deportability for sex-offense convictions and sex-offense conspiracies.
- Applies immigration consequences through both admission screening and removal proceedings.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act so noncitizens convicted of, admitting, or admitting acts constituting sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, or covered protection-order violations become inadmissible, and makes sex-offense convictions and broader domestic-violence offenses deportable.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Public Safety, Domestic Violence
Primary Purpose
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act so noncitizens convicted of, admitting, or admitting acts constituting sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, or covered protection-order violations become inadmissible, and makes sex-offense convictions and broader domestic-violence offenses deportable.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Domestic-violence survivors
- Stalking victims
- Child-abuse victims
- People protected by qualifying protection orders
- Immigration officers screening admission applications
- ICE enforcement staff
- Immigration judges
- Prosecutors in removal proceedings
Identified Costs
- Noncitizens convicted of sex offenses
- Noncitizens admitting sex-offense conduct
- Noncitizens convicted of domestic violence
- Noncitizens convicted of stalking
- Noncitizens convicted of child abuse
- Noncitizens violating qualifying protection orders
- Immigration defense attorneys
- DHS immigration officers
- ICE trial attorneys
- Immigration courts
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on the …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Ms. Mace (for herself, Ms. Malliotakis, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Biggs …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Child-abuse victims, Domestic-violence survivors, Noncitizens admitting sex-offense conduct
Positive-direction: Child-abuse victims, Domestic-violence survivors, People protected by qualifying protection orders, Stalking victims
Negative-direction: Noncitizens admitting sex-offense conduct, Noncitizens convicted of child abuse, Noncitizens convicted of domestic violence, Noncitizens convicted of sex offenses, Noncitizens convicted of stalking, Noncitizens violating qualifying protection orders
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "sex_offense"
- → term defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006
- "protection_order"
- → order protecting against credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury
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