EXCLUSIVE: The Home is poised to vote subsequent week on a invoice that may 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 12 months 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 Photos)
As a result of it was not taken up by the previously Democrat-controlled Senate, nevertheless, Mace launched the invoice once more on Friday to start out the method once more within the new 119th Congress.
“Let’s get it handed by each chambers of Congress this go round,” 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 in every of 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 12 months. (Getty Photos)
Over the weekend, Musk known as for challengers to the Democrats who voted towards the invoice in September.
“There isn’t a excuse. Please put up the record of people that opposed this regulation and need to hold illegals who’re convicted intercourse offenders in America,” Musk wrote on X in response to a conservative influencer discussing the invoice. “All of them have to be voted out of workplace. Each one in every 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 Photos)
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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 12 months 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, akin to shoplifting, as outlined by state and native regulation.
The latter invoice is predicted to be up for an additional Home vote this week.
