Schmidt-backed bill to protect women from border crisis passes House

WASHINGTON, DC: Today, Congressman Derek Schmidt (KS-02) released the following statement after the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act – which he cosponsored – passed the House:

“Our Republican Congress is acting quickly and decisively to end the Biden border crisis. As Kansas Attorney General, I saw far too many cases of illegal aliens committing heinous, violent crimes against American citizens, particularly women and children. By ensuring that noncitizens who commit these crimes are both inadmissible to and removed from the United States, this legislation will make communities in Kansas and across our great nation safer. I’m proud to be a cosponsor and look forward to this bill being signed into law by President Trump.”

BACKGROUND

In fiscal year (FY) 2023, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 3,439 illegal aliens for “family offenses,” representing a staggering 36.7% decrease from FY 2019.

Introduced by Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC-01), H.R. 30, the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, creates an explicit ground of inadmissibility and removability for aliens who commit a sex offense as defined by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. The bill also fixes a glaring loophole by creating a ground of inadmissibility for crimes of domestic violence to mirror the existing ground of removability for the same offenses.