More than 100 House Democrats voted against legislation for deporting noncitizens who are convicted of DUIs.
Fifty-nine Democrats joined with all 215 voting Republicans to approve the Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act while 150 Democrats opposed it. The bill ultimately passed with bipartisan support.
The bill, which seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to stipulate that noncitizens “who have been convicted of or who have committed an offense for driving while intoxicated or impaired” by drugs or alcohol “are inadmissible and deportable,” was introduced by Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.).
Moore said on X that it was “good news” that 59 Democrats “wised up” and voted for his measure, the congressman added that the “bad news is” President Joe Biden “is still allowing thousands of unvetted illegals to flood into our country and endanger American families.”
Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.), one of the Democrats who voted in favor of the bill, touted how the legislation “creates a new authority to deport any person unlawfully in the country who drives under the influence. We must uphold public safety at all costs.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a member of the leftist “Squad” fiercely opposed the bill claiming it creates an “unequal justice system.”
The bill “would mean that our immigrant neighbors who came here lawfully and who have resided in our communities for decades could be deported and ripped from their families due to one misdemeanor DUI conviction, creating a separate and unequal system of justice,” Tlaib said in a statement.
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