On January 16, 2025, Congressman Doug LaMalfa voted yes on HR 30: Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act. This bill amends the current Immigration and Nationality Act, in which sexual violence actions and crimes by aliens make them subject to inadmissible and deportation actions. This bill adds that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable. This bill passed in the House 274-145 but has not become law yet.
HR 30 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).
HR 30 also 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.
