Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

S. 158, the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, would expand immigration enforcement by establishing new criminal grounds for deportation and inadmissibility of non-U.S. nationals. The bill would make individuals inadmissible to the United States if they have admitted to or been convicted of stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, sex offenses, conspiracy to commit sex offenses, violations of protection orders, or domestic violence including physical or sexual abuse or patterns of coercive behavior within close relationships.

The bill would also expand existing deportation grounds by making any sex offense or conspiracy to commit a sex offense a basis for deportation, and would broaden the domestic violence crimes that trigger deportation to include physical or sexual abuse or patterns of coercive behavior within certain close relationships. Currently, some of these crimes already make individuals deportable, but the bill would extend these grounds to cover additional offenses and circumstances.

The bill is currently in committee and has not yet been voted on by the full Senate. If enacted, it would result in more non-U.S. nationals being subject to deportation proceedings based on criminal convictions related to violence against women and children.