H.R. 7909 explained · 118th Congress · Not enacted (118th Congress ended)
Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
Cosponsors: 6 (0 D, 6 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-12
Introduced: 2024-04-09
Latest action (2024-09-19): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
What H.R. 7909 does, in plain terms
Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act This 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, and 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.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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