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Preventing Violence Against Women By Illegal Aliens Act

Floor Speech

By: Bob Onder
By: Bob Onder
Date: Jan. 16, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. ONDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 30, the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act.

President Biden's open-border policies have been felt in our communities where now more than ever women are hesitant to walk alone in parking lots and look over their shoulders.

In the past few years, we have seen illegal aliens chase, beat, sexually assault, and burn women even in public. These illegal aliens target and abuse women.

This bill sends an important message that we will have zero tolerance for domestic and sexual violence by illegal aliens.

H.R. 30, the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, builds on the Laken Riley Act. While the Laken Riley Act would have prevented the death of that 22-year-old nursing student, this bill will protect women in the future by strengthening protections against violent aliens.

This bill has two important components.

First, it amends current immigration law to expand the definition of sex offenses that require deportation. It would explicitly create grounds for inadmissibility for aliens who commit a sex offense as defined by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.

Second, it explicitly establishes a ground of inadmissibility for specific domestic violence offenses. It closes a loophole in current law and clarifies what illegal aliens must be removed for domestic violence.

Enforcement by ICE for these offenses has plummeted in the years between the Trump and the Biden administrations. Over that same period, we have seen an increase in violent crimes and sexual assaults by illegal aliens. It is time to replace the slap-on-the-wrist approach with law and order.

I genuinely believe that this legislation is part of our mandate from the American people, and we should send this legislation to Donald Trump's desk for signature on day one.

On Tuesday, I was very encouraged to see 48 of my Democrat colleagues vote for the commonsense protection of Americans by voting for the Laken Riley Act. Deporting domestic violence offenders and aliens who commit sexual assault should not be a partisan issue. I hope that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will join us in supporting H.R. 30.

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