Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
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1Short title
This section would give the Act the short title "Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act."
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act .
2Inadmissibility and deportability related to sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, or violation of protection order
This section would amend the grounds for keeping aliens out of the United States and for removing them once here. On inadmissibility, it would add two new grounds to the Immigration and Nationality Act making a person inadmissible: first, any alien who has been convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts that constitute the essential elements of a sex offense (as defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006) or a conspiracy to commit such an offense; second, any alien who has been convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts that constitute the essential elements of any of the following: a crime of domestic violence, a crime of stalking, a crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment, or a crime of violating the part of a protection order that guards against credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury to the person or persons the order protects. On deportability, the section would make three changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act's deportability provisions. It would reorder the wording of an existing heading (changing "crimes against children and" to "and crimes against children") without changing which crimes the provision covers. It would expand the definition used for a deportable crime of domestic violence so that it also includes any crime that constitutes domestic violence as defined in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, regardless of whether the jurisdiction involved receives grant funding under that Act. And it would add a new, separate ground of deportability: any alien who has been convicted of a sex offense (as defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006) or a conspiracy to commit such an offense would be deportable.
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2. Inadmissibility and deportability related to sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, or violation of protection order (a) Inadmissibility Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (J) Sex offenses Any alien who has been convicted of, who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a sex offense (as such term is defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 ( 34 U.S.C. 20911(5) )), or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, is inadmissible. (K) Domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, or violation of protection order Any alien who has been convicted of, who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of— (i) a crime of domestic violence (as such term is defined in section 237(a)(2)(E)); (ii) a crime of stalking; (iii) a crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment; or (iv) a crime of violating the portion of a protection order (as such term is defined in section 237(a)(2)(E)) that involves protection against credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury to the person or persons for whom the protection order was issued, is inadmissible. . (b) Deportability Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (E)— (A) in the heading, by striking crimes against children and and inserting and crimes against children ; and (B) in clause (i), by inserting before the period at the end the following , and includes any crime that constitutes domestic violence, as such term is defined in section 40002(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ( 34 U.S.C. 12291(a) ), regardless of whether the jurisdiction receives grant funding under that Act ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (G) Sex offenses Any alien who has been convicted of a sex offense (as such term is defined in section 111(5) of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 ( 34 U.S.C. 20911(5) )) or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, is deportable. .
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