Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Punishing Illegal Immigrant Felons Act of 2025”.
Punishing Illegal Immigrant Felons Act of 2025
A BILL
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide additional criminal penalties for aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States and are convicted of crimes, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Commission of crimes by aliens unlawfully present in the United States
Commission of crimes by aliens who improperly enter— Section 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325) is amended—
in subsection (a), by striking “2 years” and inserting “5 years”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(e) Any alien who improperly enters the United States, as described in subsection (a), and is subsequently convicted of any crime punishable by more than one year of imprisonment shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such conviction, be imprisoned for not less than 5 years.”
Commission of crimes by aliens previously removed— Section 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1326) is amended—
in subsection (a), by striking “2 years” and inserting “10 years”; and
in subsection (b)—
in paragraph (1)—
by striking “or a felony (other than an aggravated felony),”; and
by striking “10 years” and inserting “15 years”; and
by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:
“(2) whose removal was subsequent to a conviction for commission of—
“(A) any aggravated felony;
“(B) any crime defined as a felony by the relevant jurisdiction (Federal, State, tribal, or local) of conviction; or
“(C) any crime punishable by more than one year of imprisonment,”