The 61 Democrats Who Voted for GOP’s Latest Awful Immigration Bill

A stunning 61 Democrats on Thursday voted in favor of MAGA Representative Nancy Mace’s useless and antagonistic immigration bill. 

On its face, Mace’s so-called “Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act” doesn’t seem like a problem. The bill  “ensures predators who pose a threat and have been previously convicted of sexual assault, domestic violence and other heinous crimes are turned away or immediately deported,” the South Carolina representative wrote in an op-ed last September. 

But in reality, the bill’s aim is redundant at best. Undocumented immigrants can already be deported on account of any crimes, and about 200,000 were deported in 2023. Documented immigrants can be deported for crimes as well, including the exact grounds Mace is referring to. 

At its worst, the bill’s vague text could hurt the very people it claims it’s trying to help. Multiple groups, including the National Task Force to end Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, have come out in opposition to Mace’s bill, stating that it increases the scope of what constitutes “grounds of inadmissibility.” In effect, it would “negatively impact immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and fail to alleviate the primary barriers to safety and stability experienced by survivors seeking relief under the Immigration and Nationality Act.” 

The group went on to argue that abusers could use this potential law to accuse their victims of abuse when they actually acted in self-defense. That’s not to mention things like language barriers, fear of retaliation or arrest, a lack of knowledge of rights, and many other obstacles that could result in immigrants being hurt by this bill. 

Here are the 61 Democrats who voted for the bill regardless:

1. Boyle — Pennsylvania
2. Budzinski — Illinois
3. Bynum — Oregon
4. Clyburn —South Carolina
5. Conaway — New Jersey
6. Courtney — Connecticut
7. Craig — Minnesota
8. Cuellar — Texas
   
9. Davis — North Carolina
10. Figures — Alabama
11. Gillen — New York
12. Golden — Maine
13. Vicente Gonzalez — Texas
14. Goodlander — New Hampshire
15. Gottheimer — New Jersey
16. Gray — California
17. Harder — California
18. Hayes — Connecticut
19. Himes — Connecticut
20. Horsford — Nevada
21. Houlahan — Pennsylvania
22. Johnson — Texas
23. Kaptur — Ohio
24. Kennedy — New York
25. Khanna — California
26. Landsman — Ohio
27. Lee — Nevada
28. Levin — California
29. Lynch — Massachusetts
30. Magaziner — Rhode Island
31. Mannion — New York
32. McBride — Delaware
33. McClain Delaney — Maryland
34. McDonald Rivet — Michigan
35. Morrison — Minnesota
36. Moskowitz — Florida
37. Panetta — California
38. Pappas — New Hampshire
39. Perez — Washington
40. Riley — New York
41. Ryan — New York
42. Salinas — Oregon
43. Scholten — Michigan
44. Schrier — Washington
45. Sewell — Alabama
46. Sherrill — New Jersey
47. Sorensen — Illinois
48. Soto — Florida
49. Stanton — Arizona
50. Subramanyam — Virginia
51. Suozzi — New York
52. Swalwell — California
53. Sykes — Ohio
54. Titus — Nevada
55. Torres — New York
56. Trahan — Massachusetts
57. Tran — California
58. Vasquez — New Mexico
59. Vindman — Virginia
60. Whitesides — California