Bill makes it easier to deport immigrants convicted of violent crimes.
H.R. 30 — Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act · Filed by Nancy Mace (R-SC) · 60 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill changes immigration law. It bars immigrants convicted of sex crimes, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, or breaking protection orders. These immigrants cannot enter the U.S. The government can deport them if they are already here. The law uses federal crime definitions. It applies even if a state does not get federal money.
Who it affects
The bill affects immigrants accused or convicted of violent crimes. It also affects women and children who may be protected from harm.
One thing to notice
The bill lets the government deport immigrants based on admissions they made. It does not require a court conviction first.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
60 cosponsors: 60 Republicans.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary and Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
- Jan 16, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 274 - 145 (Roll no. 17). (text: CR H191)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $227,678 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 30 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Nancy Mace, who sponsored the bill, received $8,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Ywca USA — $167,678 in 2 reports
- International Union of Police Associations AFL-CIO — $40,000 in 2 reports
- National Council of Jewish Women — $20,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- protection orders — court papers that tell someone to stay away from another person
- federal crime definitions — how the national government describes and defines crimes
- deport — force someone to leave the country
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,271 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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