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<dc:title>119 S158 IS: Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-01-21</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 158</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250121">January 21, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S396">Mrs. Blackburn</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSJU00">Committee on the Judiciary</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>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.</official-title></form><legis-body style="OLC" display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" id="H3D5EF562B3FA4AD9A09D738436D027E6"><section section-type="section-one" id="H44971A6E9CDC47E0B65DCC77DE039546"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act</short-title></quote>. </text></section><section id="HEECA2C07CCCE4372B0D892B6674211AB"><enum>2.</enum><header>Inadmissibility and deportability related to sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, or violation of protection order</header><subsection id="H73D156426F4848298D85F09515D49986"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Inadmissibility</header><text>Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HA2D92D43A42C4E94B9175EE0241CA478"><subparagraph id="H60D3D658290748D9B2D70AC74B797395"><enum>(J)</enum><header>Sex offenses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/34/20911">34 U.S.C. 20911(5)</external-xref>)), or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7523FFF1243D434982A346A70BEF78B0"><enum>(K)</enum><header>Domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, or violation of protection order</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any alien who has been convicted of, who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of—</text><clause id="HA9874352329145BB87F8726C2157FEF9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a crime of domestic violence (as such term is defined in section 237(a)(2)(E)); </text></clause><clause id="HF20BADFFE71144FEBAE9C93094601DEE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a crime of stalking;</text></clause><clause id="H2462C10E116744A4B57C85053851A482"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment; or</text></clause><clause id="HFCA328E84AF04A879A5B4FF0F2F75BE1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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, </text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">is inadmissible. </continuation-text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H6723D788AED04EF9B28A1AFC519B9DF4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Deportability</header><text>Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="H533E8C7892724786AC33C27E49D54A7D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E)—</text><subparagraph id="HC508A92F4DC347D2914D492F3043BC4B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">crimes against children and</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">and crimes against children</header-in-text></quote>; and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA0FE23D93BE140168F36818E6DB0D6E8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (i), by inserting before the period at the end the following <quote>, 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 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/34/12291">34 U.S.C. 12291(a)</external-xref>), regardless of whether the jurisdiction receives grant funding under that Act</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA6A167D2C4E64AF19F607C6ABB440C23"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HD2CDFD9B48D4428584E23B14CA766978"><subparagraph id="HB9C06F512B81473BBE47604B9FBA7859"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Sex offenses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/34/20911">34 U.S.C. 20911(5)</external-xref>)) or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, is deportable.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body></bill> 

