EXCLUSIVE: The Home is poised to vote subsequent week on a invoice that might mandate the deportation of unlawful immigrants who’re discovered responsible of intercourse crimes.
The laws noticed enthusiastic assist simply days in the past from billionaire Elon Musk, who criticized the Democrats who beforehand opposed it.
The Violence In opposition to Ladies by Unlawful Aliens Act was first launched by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., final yr and handed the Home with bipartisan assist. All Republican lawmakers voted for the invoice, together with 51 Home Democrats.
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Elon Musk is backing a invoice by Rep. Nancy Mace to deport migrants convicted of intercourse crimes (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
As a result of it was not taken up by the previously Democrat-controlled Senate, nonetheless, Mace launched the invoice once more on Friday to begin the method once more within the new 119th Congress.
“Let’s get it passed through both chambers of Congress this go around,” Mace wrote on social media over the weekend.
Two sources instructed Fox Information Digital that Home GOP leaders intend to carry one other vote on it subsequent week, which might come simply days earlier than President-elect Trump’s inauguration.
It’s one among a number of border safety and different conservative coverage payments launched by Home Republicans on Friday — the primary day of the 119th Congress.
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Mace beforehand launched the invoice final yr. (Getty Photographs)
Over the weekend, Musk known as for challengers to the Democrats who voted towards the invoice in September.
“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 wrote on X in response to a conservative influencer discussing the invoice. “They all need to be voted out of office. Every one of them.”
GOP lawmakers are signaling that they need to waste no time in enacting their agenda after the November election noticed Republicans retain the Home whereas additionally taking the White Home and Senate.
Former Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer by no means took up the invoice. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Photographs)
Along with Mace bringing her invoice again, Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Mike Collins, R-Ga., additionally reintroduced their very own laws that handed the Home final yr however didn’t see a Senate vote.
Roy launched a invoice mandating proof of citizenship within the voter registration course of, whereas Collins is main laws to direct federal immigration authorities to difficulty detainers and take custody of unlawful aliens who commit theft-related crimes, reminiscent of shoplifting, as outlined by state and native legislation.
The latter invoice is anticipated to be up for an additional Home vote this week.
