On Passage — H R 30 — Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

In plain language

• This House bill from the 119th Congress is titled the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act.
• Official subject tags include assault, child safety, crimes against children, domestic violence and child abuse, immigration status, sex offenses, and immigration.
• The official summary says the bill would add criminal grounds that make a non-U.S. national inadmissible and expand crimes that make a non-U.S. national deportable.
• A non-U.S. national would be inadmissible if they admit or are convicted of acts that make up the essential elements of stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, a sex offense, conspiracy to commit a sex offense, violation of certain protection orders, or domestic violence, including physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior in certain close relationships.
• Current law, as described here, already makes some convictions, including domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse, grounds for deportation. The bill would add any sex offense, including crimes against minors, or conspiracy to commit a sex offense.
• It would also expand deportable domestic-violence crimes to include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior in certain close relationships.