{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcguire.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-john-mcguire-votes-preventing-violence-against-women-illegal-aliens-act", "Rep. John McGuire Votes for the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act", "2025-01-16", "2025", "2025-01", "Republican", "House", "VA", "John J. McGuire III", "M001239", "mcguire.house.gov", "mcguire", "https://mcguire.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representative John McGuire (VA-05) today voted for the Preventing Violence Against Women by Aliens Act, legislation that demands that aliens who have been convicted of, or who have committed, sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable.\n\nRep. John McGuire is also a cosponsor of the legislation.\n\n\u201cEvery community is a border community,\u201d said Rep. John McGuire. \u201cUnder the Biden Administration, criminal aliens have been given unrestricted access to rob, rape, and murder the American people without consequence. I was proud to cosponsor and vote for the Preventing Violence Against Women by Aliens Act, commonsense legislation that stands up for women and protects our American communities. It\u2019s time to address this commonsense issue and I look forward to working with the incoming Administration to solve this crisis.\u201d\n\nFor Background:\n\nIn Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19), the Trump Administration arrested aliens with 5,435 convictions and charges for \u201cfamily offenses.\u201d That number dropped to 3,439 \u2013 a 36.7% decrease \u2013 in FY23 under the Biden Administration. Aliens who commit child abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence have no place in our country.\n\nUnder current law, there is not a specific ground of inadmissibility for aliens who commit certain domestic violence offenses, despite a ground of removability for crimes of domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, and violating a protection order.\n\nH.R. 30 strengthens our immigration laws and makes it clear that predators will not be tolerated in the United States by:\n\nCreating a ground of inadmissibility for aliens who are convicted of, who admit having committed, or who admit committing acts that constitute the essential elements of a sex offense, as defined by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, and creating an identical ground of removability for aliens who are convicted of such offenses.\n\nClosing a loophole in current law by establishing a new ground of inadmissibility for several domestic violence-related offenses and expanding the existing ground of removability related to domestic violence crimes.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T17:10:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mcguire.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-john-mcguire-votes-preventing-violence-against-women-illegal-aliens-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1801249347627163, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}