The bill aims to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make certain activities related to sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse grounds for inadmissibility and deportability of illegal aliens. It specifically outlines these actions as inadmissible offenses and deportable offenses. Additionally, the bill seeks to broaden the scope of deportable offenses to include sex offenses and crimes constituting domestic violence, even if the jurisdiction does not receive grant funding under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
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.
