Dozens Of Democrats Pile On to Support Nancy Mace’s Immigration Bill
Charlie Kirk Staff
01/17/2025

In what had to be a shocker for Democrat Minority Leader and New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, more than a quarter of Democrats in the House voted in favor of Rep. Nancy Mace’s legislation to deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes.
The legislation, titled the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, passed by a vote of 274-145 that included 61 Democrats joining the Republicans.
“We are fed up with headlines about women losing their lives or becoming victims of assailants who trespassed into our country illegally under the Biden-Harris border crisis,” Rep. Nancy Mace said. “This legislation sends a strong message: if you are an illegal who has committed acts of violence against women, you will not find sanctuary here.”
Still there were 158 Democrats who voted against the legislation and claimed that it demonized illegal immigrants.
“Here we are again, debating another partisan bill that fearmongers about immigrants instead of working together to fix the immigration system,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said during the debate of the legislation. “I probably shouldn’t be too surprised. Scapegoating immigrants and attempting to weaponize the crime of domestic violence is appearing to be a time-honored tradition for Republicans.”
Democrat New York Rep. Jerry Nadler accused Republicans of trying to “scapegoat and fearmonger about immigrants.”
“The redundancies in this bill,” he said, “all but assure that no additional dangerous individuals would face immigration consequences if it were to become law.”
But Mace did not cower during the debate.
“Our country has been ravaged by a horror of illegal immigrants…violently raping American women and girls,” she said. “I know the lifelong scars, the irreversible scars, these heinous crimes leave behind.”
New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that she was disappointed in the Democrats who joined Republicans in voting in favor of the legislation.
“This bill is going to deport victims of domestic violence,” she said to The Independent. “Overwhelmingly women who are being abused and battered are going to be targeted by this, and it is really sad.”
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