145 deputies in the House of Representatives voted against the bill on the deportation of migrants who committed sexual assault
More than 140 Democrats voted against a House bill to deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes on Thursday.
The law was adopted along bipartisan lines with 274 to 145 votes. All present Republicans supported the law, while the opposition consisted of Democratic representatives.
The bill was first introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-C., in the 118th Congress, but the Democratic-controlled Senate failed to take it up. At that time, 158 Democrats voted against the bill of exchange.
“Our country is ravaged by the horror of illegal immigrants … violently raping American women and girls,” Mace said during a debate on the bill. “I know the lifelong scars, the irreversible scars, that these heinous crimes leave behind.”
Elon Musk was among the most ardent supporters of the bill, even calling for lawmakers who voted against to lose their seats in the House of Representatives.
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is one of the Democrats who voted against the bill. (Getty Images)
“No excuses. Please release the list of people who opposed this bill and want to keep illegals who are convicted sex offenders in America,” Musk wrote further X in response to a conservative influencer’s conversation about the law. “They should all be voted out of office. Every single one of them.”
In addition to deporting migrants convicted of sex crimes, the legislation would also consider illegal immigrants who admit to — or have been convicted of — domestic violence or sex-related charges — be inadmissible to the U.S.
But Democrats argued that the bill would harm victims of domestic violence who fight back against their partner, and expands the definition to include domestic violence to the detriment of survivors.
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Rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C., first introduced the bill in the 118th Congress (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for the Congressional Integrity Project)
During a debate on the bill Thursday morning, progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said the bill “does absolutely nothing to address the needs of the American people” and “furthers the path toward Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.”
Jayapal said this would “create a chilling effect for reporting future crimes” and “empower abusers to target immigrant women and children.”
Mace wrote on X during the debate on the bill: “The left justifying why they are against deporting sh*bists, p*deophiles im*rderers who are here ILLEGALLY never ceases to amaze me.”
Elon Musk supported the bill last year (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the No. 3 Republican in the House, also criticized Democrats who voted against the bill.
“House Democrats’ votes against HR 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 that members oppose it,” Emmer told Fox. News Digital.
Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, one of the Republicans who voted for the bill, argued that the Biden administration’s border policies made the bill necessary and said the bill would “ensure that any illegal immigrant who commits a sex crime or a domestic violence offense is sentenced quickly arrested and deported.”
