# H.R. 30 (119th): Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

Preventing 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, 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.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: abuse_accountability. Category: justice_truth. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: domestic_violence. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: immigration. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: violence_prevention. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 16: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 17: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill directly restrains named harms: domestic violence, child abuse, and sex offenses against minors. It does so by creating consequences for abusers rather than advancing any abuse. Its immigration-enforcement mechanics are a prudential matter that does not override this orientation.
Theological note: The measure bears on the protection of women and children from abuse and sexual violence, which Scripture treats as serious wrongs requiring civil restraint under general equity. Its relevance lies in the civil enforcement of protection against abusers. Questions of immigration admission and removal are prudential and governmental, and are not themselves the moral center of the bill.

## Recorded votes

Roll 16: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 206 · Nay 213 · Other 15.
Roll 17: On Passage. Yea 274 · Nay 145 · Other 15.

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