119-s158

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 158 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 158

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.

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 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

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 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.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Violence Against Women by 
Illegal Aliens Act''.

SEC. 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.''.

    (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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