Over Half of House Democrats Vote Against Bill That Would Deport Illegal Immigrants Arrested for DUI

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How desperate are Democrats to preserve the “rights” of immigrants who commit crimes? So much so that well over half the House Democratic Caucus voted against a bill that would make it easier to deport immigrants caught driving under the influence and prevent them from re-entry — including illegal immigrants.

According to The Hill, the legislation — HR 6976 — ought to have been a slam dunk. And it did end up passing at the end of the day, 274-150, mostly along party lines.

The roll call of the vote on Thursday shows 215 yeas and zero nays on the GOP side for the bill. (Three Republican members didn’t vote.)

On the Democratic side, 59 voted yea and 150 voted nay, with four not voting.

“In the United States, someone dies in a crash with an impaired driver every 45 minutes,” Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama, the Republican who introduced the bill, said in an interview with Fox News. “I lost two of my young newlywed constituents to an illegal immigrant driving under the influence of alcohol.”

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, said, “With the seriousness of the crime and the potential deadly consequences, you would think that if an illegal immigrant was caught driving under the influence, they would be deported and barred from reentering the country — unfortunately, however, that is not always the case.”

The text of the bill is fairly straightforward, even if the implications aren’t. It amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make DUI by an alien, legal or illegal, grounds for deportation and future inadmissibility to the United States “without regard to whether the conviction is classified as a misdemeanor or felony under Federal, State, tribal, or local law.”

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