by Guy Page
Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) voted Wednesday, Sept. 18 against a U.S. House of Representatives bill to deport illegal immigrants who commit domestic violence and sex offenses.
51 other House Democrats voted for the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, which passed the House by a 266-158 margin and now goes to the Senate. HR7909, sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-South Carolina, “establishes that domestic violence crimes and sex offenses shall be grounds for making a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) inadmissible and deportable,” according to Congress.gov.
The Congress.gov explanation of the bill states: “The bill applies to any non-U.S. national who has admitted to or is convicted of acts constituting the essential elements of a crime of domestic violence or a sex offense, and includes conspiracy to commit a sex offense. (Under current law, convictions for certain crimes, including crimes of moral turpitude, are grounds for inadmissibility and deportability.)”
Every Republican in the GOP-controlled House voted for the bill. The Demcratic caucus voted 51-158. Fellow progressive ‘squad’ members Talib, Omar, Pressley, and Occasio-Cortez also voted no.
Balint has not mentioned the vote on her social media.
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