[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7909 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7909

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2024

   Ms. Mace (for herself, Mr. Biggs, and Ms. Boebert) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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 inadmissible and deportable.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Violence Against Women by Illegal 
Aliens Act''.

SEC. 2. INADMISSIBILITY AND DEPORTABILITY RELATED TO SEX OFFENSES AND 
              DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

    (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.--Any alien who has been 
                convicted of, who admits having committed, or who 
                admits committing acts which constitute the essential 
                elements of a crime of domestic violence (as such term 
                is defined in section 237(a)(2)(E)), 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)(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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