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The bill strengthens federal authority to remove noncitizens convicted of certain crimes—potentially improving public safety and enforcement clarity—while increasing risks of family disruption, fairness and due-process concerns, higher enforcement costs, and inconsistent results across states.
Local communities and residents: makes it easier to remove noncitizens convicted of serious crimes (a felony or two misdemeanors), which can reduce local public-safety risks.
Federal law enforcement and the Department of Justice: clarifies and broadens removal grounds and gives the Attorney General clearer authority to initiate removals for post-admission criminal convictions, improving enforceability and administrative clarity.
Immigrants and their families: noncitizens with older or long-past convictions could be deported despite rehabilitation, disrupting families, employment, and community stability.
Noncitizens (particularly those with minor convictions): two misdemeanor convictions could trigger removal, raising due-process and fairness concerns when relatively minor or nonviolent offenses lead to deportation.
Taxpayers and the immigration court system: expanding removal eligibility is likely to increase immigration court caseloads and deportation enforcement costs, imposing fiscal burdens on federal and local resources.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds a deportability ground making any admitted noncitizen convicted of a felony or two misdemeanors removable, with convictions under State or Federal law counting.
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that any alien who has been convicted of a felony or two misdemeanors, is deportable, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 17, 2025 by Paul Gosar · Last progress November 17, 2025
Creates a new ground of deportability by making any noncitizen who, after being admitted to the United States, is convicted of a felony (one conviction) or two misdemeanors deportable regardless of when those convictions occurred. The change amends the Immigration and Nationality Act’s removal grounds to add this additional criminal-based basis for removal and applies to convictions under either State or Federal law.