Sec. 501. AGGRAVATED FELONY DEFINITION
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## SEC. 501 AGGRAVATED FELONY DEFINITION ###
(a)In General Paragraph
(43)of section 101(a) (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) is amended— ####
(1)by aligning its left margin with the left margin of paragraph (42), ####
(2)by inserting “any illicit trafficking in any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act), including” after “murder,”, ####
(3)by inserting after “such title,” the following: “any offense described in section 1956 of title 18, United States Code (relating to laundering of monetary instruments), or any crime of violence (as defined in section 16 of title 18, United States Code, not including a purely political offense) for which the term of imprisonment imposed (regardless of any suspension of such imprisonment) is at least 5 years,”, ####
(4)by striking “committed within the United States”, ####
(5)by adding at the end the following: “Such term applies to offenses described in the previous sentence whether in violation of Federal or State law.”, and ####
(6)by inserting before the period of the sentence added by paragraph
(5)the following: “and also applies to offenses described in the previous sentence in violation of foreign law for which the term of imprisonment was completed within the previous 15 years”. ###
(b)Effective Date The amendments made by subsection
(a)shall apply to offenses committed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, except that the amendments made by paragraphs
(2)and
(5)of subsection
(a)shall be effective as if included in the enactment of section 7342 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988.
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