H.R. 30 · Passed House · Immigration

Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

What it does

Makes a foreign national inadmissible for admitting to or being convicted of stalking, child abuse, neglect, or abandonment, a sex offense, violating certain protection orders, or domestic violence.
Defines domestic violence to include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior within certain close relationships.
Makes any sex offense, including crimes against minors, or conspiracy to commit one a ground for deportation.
Expands the domestic violence crimes that make a foreign national deportable to include that same abuse or coercive behavior.

Official summary

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…

Latest action

Jan 17, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Committee: Senate Judiciary