The House voted Friday to define in federal law what constitutes a “crime of violence,” a change that would make it easier to charge immigrants with an aggravated felony and deport them.

The Community Safety and Security Act passed 247-152 and was introduced just a week ago by Rep. Karen Handel, R-Ga. The bill is a response to a Supreme Court ruling in April that said there’s not enough clarity in federal law to charge immigrants with aggravated felony, because that determination is based on whether they committed a “crime of violence,” a term found in another part of the federal code that isn’t defined.