This bill, titled the "Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act," would change the Immigration and Nationality Act. It adds new rules so that noncitizens (referred to in the bill as "aliens") who have been convicted of, who admit to committing, or who admit acts that are the essential elements of certain crimes cannot enter the United States and can be removed. The crimes named include sex offenses (as defined in the Adam Walsh Act), crimes of domestic violence, stalking, child abuse/neglect/abandonment, and certain violations of protection orders. The bill also changes deportability rules to explicitly make sex offenses a deportable ground and to clarify that domestic violence counts as a deportable crime whether or not a jurisdiction receives certain federal grant funds. The bill was introduced in the House and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
If this bill became law, noncitizens who have been convicted of, who admit to committing, or who admit acts that meet the listed crime definitions could be declared inadmissible (stopped from entering or getting a visa) and could be deported. The rules apply to sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, and some violations of protection orders. The bill changes definitions and the list of crimes that immigration authorities use to decide admissibility and deportability.
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The bill text makes clear its goal: to add sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, and certain protection-order violations to the list of crimes that make a noncitizen inadmissible or deportable. Supporters who sponsored the bill in the House introduced it to the Judiciary Committee.
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