Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
Sponsored by Nancy Mace
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 17, 2025
This bill expands criminal grounds for immigration enforcement against non-U.S. nationals. It establishes new bases for inadmissibility (bars from entry) related to stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, sex offenses, conspiracy to commit sex offenses, protection order violations, and domestic violence involving physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior in close relationships. It adds sex offenses and conspiracy to commit sex offenses as deportable offenses. It also broadens existing domestic violence deportation grounds to explicitly include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior in certain close relationships.
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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.