Bill to Prevent Sex Offenders Entry Into U.S.

“Right now, the current laws on the books don’t effectively target those who have been convicted of sexual assault and sexual violence. We desperately need to update these laws to make sure we block sexual predators from immigrating to the U.S.,” Ernst added.

That statement is WRONG. 8 USC 1182: Inadmissible aliens ( https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title8-section1182&num=0&edition=prelim: ) already defines who can/can not enter the US.

In pain language according to https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/what-crimes-make-immigrants-inadmissible.html :

“You become inadmissible to the U.S. if you have been convicted of, admit to having committed, or admit having committed acts that add up to the essential elements of one of the following:

• A crime involving moral turpitude (other than a purely political offense) or attempting or conspiring to commit such a crime. Two exceptions exist, including one for minors (under 18 years of age) who committed the crime and were released from any prison or confinement more than five years before applying for a visa or other immigration benefit; and one for where the maximum penalty possible for the person’s crime is less than one year’s imprisonment, and the person was not, in fact, sentenced to more than six months.

• A violation of (or a conspiracy or attempt to violate) any controlled substance (drug) law, whether it’s a U.S. or foreign law.

• Multiple criminal convictions (two or more, other than purely political offenses) for which the total, aggregate prison sentences were five years or more. It doesn’t matter whether the conviction came from a single trial or scheme of misconduct or from separate ones.

• Illicit trafficking in any controlled substance (drug). No actual conviction is required for this one: It’s enough that the consular officer or the Attorney General has reason to believe that you’ve been a trafficker, or even a knowing aider, abettor, assister, conspirator, or colluder with others in illicit trafficking.

• Benefiting from illicit drug trafficking, by a spouse, son, or daughter of the trafficker within the previous five years. This means having obtained any financial or other benefit from such illicit trafficking, while having known or reasonably should have known where the money or other benefits came from.

• Prostitution and commercialized vice. This applies to people who will or have engaged in prostitution (within ten years of applying for a visa or other immigration benefit), as well as to those involved in procuring prostitutes or who receiving proceeds from prostitution, as well as to anyone coming to the United States to engage in any other unlawful commercialized vice.

• Involvement in serious criminal activity, where the person has asserted immunity from prosecution, departed the United States as a result, and not subsequently submitted to the jurisdiction of the relevant U.S. court.

• Particularly severe violations of religious freedom while serving as a foreign government official.

• Human trafficking, whether inside or outside the United States; or apparently being a knowing aider, abettor, assister, conspirator, or colluder with such a trafficker in severe forms of trafficking in persons.

• Benefiting from human trafficking, by a spouse, son, or daughter of the trafficker, within the previous five years, where the person knew or reasonably should have known where the money or other benefits came from. There is an exception for a son or daughter who was a child at the time he or she received the benefit.

• Laundering of monetary instruments; or apparently being a knowing aider, abettor, assister, conspirator, or colluder with others in money laundering.”

So the difference Ernst wants is no exceptions allowed period. It seems to me she just wants less immigrants.

AS IF “sexual predators” are routinely getting into the U.S. as it is. Joni is a Trumpist, nationalist, populist demagogue like the rest of the Republican Party today, busy creating phantom boogeymen to appeal to their appallingly ignorant base.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

They need to scratch that off the Statue of Liberty! That sentiment doesn’t apply anymore thanks to the current outrage culture and people like Joni Ernst and Chris Smith.

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Me personally I don’t care about leaving the country why would I spend $7.000 on a family vacation to Rome for 2 weeks just to come home and still be on the registry labeled a sex offender.
People forced to register in California still trying live normal lives are like drug addicts getting high to numb their pain, pretending to be a normal person in society while on the registry is just a temporary high, then reality kicks back in and you realize that your a registered sex offender that is not wanted in todays society.

Good luck