During the recent vote for the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, 145 Democrats voted to oppose the legislation. The House bill seeks to deport illegal immigrants who have been convicted of sex crimes, passing in a vote defined by partisan lines 274 to 145. Last year, 158 Democrats voted against the bill.
The bill, introduced to the 118th Congress by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), follows numerous high-profile murders allegedly perpetrated against young American women by illegal immigrants. Prominent examples include 22-year-old Laken Riley’s and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray’s murders, which have fueled the Republican deportation agenda.“No family should endure the heartbreak the families of Laken Riley, Mollie Tibbetts, Karina Vetrano, and Maddie Hines have experienced. Every woman and every girl deserves to feel safe in their own community,” Mace said. “The radical left doesn’t agree with this. 145 liberals in Congress love illegal immigrant rapists and murder.. House Republicans united to expand protections for women and put the safety of Americans first.”
She continued, “This isn’t complicated—keeping criminal illegal aliens out of our country and off our streets is just common sense. Women should be able to walk down the street without fear, and families should feel safe in their own neighborhoods.” Mace added while debating the bill, “Our country has been ravaged by a horror of illegal immigrants…violently raping American women and girls. I know the lifelong scars, the irreversible scars, these heinous crimes leave behind.”
Multi-billionaire Elon Musk, who has become increasingly active in Republican politics, also weighed in on the bill. “There is no excuse. Please post the list of people who opposed this law and want to keep illegals who are convicted sex offenders in America,” Musk posted on social media. “They all need to be voted out of office. Every one of them.”
Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) issued a press released explaining the opposition to the bill from within his party. Given the way the bill is drafted, many of my Democratic colleagues – as well as over 200 groups dedicated to serving victims of domestic violence – worry that the bill could inadvertently punish women who are victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence and make them subject to deportation. Critics of the bill argue that because the bill does not provide waivers, or grant discretion when victims of domestic abuse are caught up in an arrest, it could lead to scenarios where survivors who may have acted in self-defense are deported after being mistakenly accused of being an aggressor,” he wrote.
Moulton continued, “Congress and President Trump MUST stop playing games with immigration policy. Instead of trying to score political points against each other, we need bipartisan immigration reform that secures our borders, treats hard-working families humanely, and keeps our communities safe and prosperous. Trump already sunk a bipartisan Senate bill that would do these things in order to play politics with our borders during the election. Since he apparently controls what all Republicans do, it’s up to him to come to the table with real reforms, not messaging bills like this one. Real reform is what the American people have repeatedly asked for, and it’s what we all deserve.”
However, Republican have denounced the opposition to a seemingly common sense issue, where House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) criticized his left-leaning colleagues “House Democrats’ votes against H.R. 30 should be seen for what they are: Prioritizing criminal illegal immigrants over the safety and well-being of their constituents. It’s unconscionable that we have to pass legislation like this, much less have members oppose it,” Emmer said.
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