Democrats reject push to alert ICE when illegal immigrants fail firearm background checks

Fox News ^ | February 17, 2019 | Gregg Re

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Democrats this week approved legislation to require background checks for essentially all sales and transfers of firearms -- but rejected GOP-led efforts to amend the legislation to alert law enforcement authorities when gun buyers, including illegal immigrants, fail those background checks.

The House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the bill 23-15, in a strict party-line vote, sending it to the House floor. If approved by the full House, the bill would be the most significant gun-control legislation approved by either chamber of Congress in at least a decade -- although it stands little chance of passage in the Senate, where Republicans command a slim majority.

Republicans in the House charged that H.R. 8, known as "The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019," should have included Florida Rep. Greg Steube's proposed amendment to require that law enforcement be notified "when an individual attempting to purchase a firearm fails a federal background check." (H.R. 8 was numbered in honor of former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot in Arizona on Jan. 8, 2011 by a mentally ill gunman.)

“Clearly, the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee don’t care about preventing gun violence, they simply are playing politics with Americans’ Second Amendment rights,” Steube, a Republican, said after the vote. “The fact that Democrats do not want law enforcement notified if an individual attempting to purchase a firearm fails a background check is truly troubling.”

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• Democrats Kill Greg Steube's Proposal to Contact ICE When Illegal Immigrants Try to Buy Guns

[Vlad The Inhaler]

This is the kind of ‘wall’ democrats like.

The support anything that aids criminals and hampers law, order and accountability.

This is the kind of ‘wall’ they built between intelligence agencies that paved the way for the 9/11 terrorist skyjackers by preventing inter-agency cooperation and transfer of information.

[Boomer]

It's 100% illegal for illegals to own firearms in America as it is and they know it. By trying to circumvent our laws they put themselves on the radar to be deported; which they should be.

With the commie red dems; it's all about control over us - the people of America. I look forward to that day when they are removed from our country. Head first or feet first. It matters not. All that matters is they no longer pollute/stink up our land with their vile and putrid presence.

[Retvet]

Democrats don’t want to have an invasion of the USA, they want an armed invasion!