More than 150 democrats voted against republican representative nancy mace 's bill that would ensure undocumented immigrants convicted of sex offenses are deported or deemed inadmissible to the. The bill makes any sex offense (including crimes against minors) or conspiracy to commit a sex offense a basis for deportation National deportable to include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships. But democrats and domestic violence groups who opposed the bill told politifact that the law already provides for deportation of migrants convicted of sex offenses and crimes against children. The better enforcement of grievous offenses by unnaturalized emigrants (be gone) act would classify sexual assault and aggravated sexual violence as “aggravated felonies” under the immigration and nationality act Migrants convicted of “aggravated felonies” are subject to immediate deportation and barred from reentering the u.s.
In massachusetts and maryland, where violent offenders are being arrested by u.s Immigration and customs enforcement agents, eight and seven democrats, respectively, voted against deporting such offenders.
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