Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

In Plain Language

This bill makes it easier to prevent and remove non-U.S. citizens from entering or staying in the country if they have been convicted of or admitted to crimes involving violence against women and children. Specifically, it adds stalking, child abuse, child neglect, sex offenses, and violations of protection orders as grounds for keeping someone out of the country or deporting them. The bill expands existing deportation rules for domestic violence to cover a broader range of abusive behaviors in close relationships.

Official Congressional Research Service summary

Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens ActThis 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.