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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION 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.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY21, 2025
Mrs. B
LACKBURNintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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 inadmis-
sible and deportable.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing Violence 4
Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. INADMISSIBILITY AND DEPORTABILITY RELATED 1
TO SEX OFFENSES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 2
STALKING, CHILD ABUSE, OR VIOLATION OF 3
PROTECTION ORDER. 4
(a) I
NADMISSIBILITY.—Section 212(a)(2) of the Im-5
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is 6
amended by adding at the end the following: 7
‘‘(J) S
EX OFFENSES.—Any alien who has 8
been convicted of, who admits having com-9
mitted, or who admits committing acts which 10
constitute the essential elements of a sex of-11
fense (as such term is defined in section 111(5) 12
of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety 13
Act of 2006 (34 U.S.C. 20911(5))), or a con-14
spiracy to commit such an offense, is inadmis-15
sible. 16
‘‘(K) D
OMESTIC VIOLENCE , STALKING, 17
CHILD ABUSE, OR VIOLATION OF PROTECTION 18
ORDER.—Any alien who has been convicted of, 19
who admits having committed, or who admits 20
committing acts which constitute the essential 21
elements of— 22
‘‘(i) a crime of domestic violence (as 23
such term is defined in section 24
237(a)(2)(E)); 25
‘‘(ii) a crime of stalking; 26
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‘‘(iii) a crime of child abuse, child ne-1
glect, or child abandonment; or 2
‘‘(iv) a crime of violating the portion 3
of a protection order (as such term is de-4
fined in section 237(a)(2)(E)) that involves 5
protection against credible threats of vio-6
lence, repeated harassment, or bodily in-7
jury to the person or persons for whom the 8
protection order was issued, 9
is inadmissible.’’. 10
(b) D
EPORTABILITY.—Section 237(a)(2) of the Im-11
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is 12
amended— 13
(1) in subparagraph (E)— 14
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘
CRIMES 15
AGAINST CHILDREN AND ’’ and inserting ‘‘AND 16
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN ’’; and 17
(B) in clause (i), by inserting before the 18
period at the end the following ‘‘, and includes 19
any crime that constitutes domestic violence, as 20
such term is defined in section 40002(a) of the 21
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 22
Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291(a)), regardless 23
of whether the jurisdiction receives grant fund-24
ing under that Act’’; and 25
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(2) by adding at the end the following: 1
‘‘(G) S
EX OFFENSES.—Any alien who has 2
been convicted of a sex offense (as such term is 3
defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh 4
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (34 5
U.S.C. 20911(5))) or a conspiracy to commit 6
such an offense, is deportable.’’. 7
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