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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 158 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who |
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| 6 | 6 | | have been convicted of, or who have committed, sex offenses or domestic |
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| 7 | 7 | | violence are inadmissible and deportable. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY21, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mrs. B |
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| 11 | 11 | | LACKBURNintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and |
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| 12 | 12 | | referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide |
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| 15 | 15 | | that aliens who have been convicted of, or who have |
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| 16 | 16 | | committed, sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmis- |
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| 17 | 17 | | sible and deportable. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing Violence 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •S 158 IS |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. INADMISSIBILITY AND DEPORTABILITY RELATED 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | TO SEX OFFENSES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | STALKING, CHILD ABUSE, OR VIOLATION OF 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | PROTECTION ORDER. 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) I |
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| 31 | 31 | | NADMISSIBILITY.—Section 212(a)(2) of the Im-5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | amended by adding at the end the following: 7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ‘‘(J) S |
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| 35 | 35 | | EX OFFENSES.—Any alien who has 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | been convicted of, who admits having com-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | mitted, or who admits committing acts which 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | constitute the essential elements of a sex of-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | fense (as such term is defined in section 111(5) 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Act of 2006 (34 U.S.C. 20911(5))), or a con-14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | spiracy to commit such an offense, is inadmis-15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | sible. 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(K) D |
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| 45 | 45 | | OMESTIC VIOLENCE , STALKING, 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | CHILD ABUSE, OR VIOLATION OF PROTECTION 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ORDER.—Any alien who has been convicted of, 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | who admits having committed, or who admits 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | committing acts which constitute the essential 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | elements of— 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(i) a crime of domestic violence (as 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | such term is defined in section 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | 237(a)(2)(E)); 25 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ‘‘(ii) a crime of stalking; 26 |
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| 57 | 57 | | •S 158 IS |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(iii) a crime of child abuse, child ne-1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | glect, or child abandonment; or 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ‘‘(iv) a crime of violating the portion 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | of a protection order (as such term is de-4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | fined in section 237(a)(2)(E)) that involves 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | protection against credible threats of vio-6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | lence, repeated harassment, or bodily in-7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | jury to the person or persons for whom the 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | protection order was issued, 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | is inadmissible.’’. 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (b) D |
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| 69 | 69 | | EPORTABILITY.—Section 237(a)(2) of the Im-11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | amended— 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (1) in subparagraph (E)— 14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘ |
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| 74 | 74 | | CRIMES 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | AGAINST CHILDREN AND ’’ and inserting ‘‘AND 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN ’’; and 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (B) in clause (i), by inserting before the 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | period at the end the following ‘‘, and includes 19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | any crime that constitutes domestic violence, as 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | such term is defined in section 40002(a) of the 21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12291(a)), regardless 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | of whether the jurisdiction receives grant fund-24 |
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| 84 | 84 | | ing under that Act’’; and 25 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | ‘‘(G) S |
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| 90 | 90 | | EX OFFENSES.—Any alien who has 2 |
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| 91 | 91 | | been convicted of a sex offense (as such term is 3 |
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| 92 | 92 | | defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh 4 |
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| 93 | 93 | | Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (34 5 |
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| 94 | 94 | | U.S.C. 20911(5))) or a conspiracy to commit 6 |
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| 95 | 95 | | such an offense, is deportable.’’. 7 |
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