Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U.S. nationals inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U.S. national is deportable.

Highlights:

• Establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U.S. nationals inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U.S. national is deportable (Sec. 2).

• 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).  

• Establishes additional grounds for deportation and specifies that under current law, a non-U.S. national is deportable for certain criminal convictions, including domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse (Sec. 2).

• Specifies that this bill makes any sex offense (including crimes against minors) or conspiracy to commit a sex offense a basis for deportation (Sec. 2).

• 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 (Sec. 2).

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text