Posted on 02/01/2024 11:51:18 AM PST by packagingguy
The House passed a bill Thursday that will enable law enforcement to deport illegal migrants caught driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The measure passed with the support of 274 lawmakers, but a staggering 150 Democrats voted against it.
The Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that illegal migrants caught driving under the influence can be deported and not allowed back into the U.S.
'In the United States, someone dies in a crash with an impaired driver every 45 minutes,' Rep. Barry Moore, who introduced the bill, told Fox News.
'I lost two of my young newlywed constituents to an illegal immigrant driving under the influence of alcohol.'
'Angel and Jeremy were riding a motorcycle together when out of nowhere an illegal alien, under the influence of alcohol, collided into the newlyweds with his pickup. Their lives were cut dramatically short,' Moore said on the House floor Thursday.
'Sadly, tragedies like this are not uncommon across our country,' he continued. 'Consider this case from Missouri, where just two months ago an illegal alien from Honduras was sentenced for driving drunk at a 100 mph and killing a man.'
In December, an illegal migrant from El Salvador, who had previously been deported from the U.S. four times, was accused of killing a Colorado mother and her son in a crash that involved alcohol, according to local news outlet KDVR.
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You can't even visit Canada, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, China, Japan, and Malaysia if you have a DUI on your record.
One of the Democrats' treasured ones ran over me fourteen years ago and I spent an entire summer in the hospital. I still have problems to this day.
The illegal had already been arrested twice for DUI, almost killed another person and then got caught again in Mississippi.
Democrats hate you.
No one here at FR is staggered by that number.
How about deport ALL ILLEGALS period? Hey, put a bounty on them to help round them up.
Like the woman who founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving there will have to be a deadly tragedy involving Democrats who voted to let the dangerous illegals go on driving.
Kabuki theater by the Rs who can't get real work done, like a real budget package instead of yet another continuing resolution.
Did the Senate pass this too?
Good strategy.
Lets see what the Senate does with this.
Clearly the winds have changed in the GOP Senate and they are scared.
I hate to say this, but this will cause trouble. Every judge in every blue state will now simply refuse to impose a DUI conviction. The Republicans just need to be able to hop all over arrests that didn’t lead to convictions but did lead to tragedies, repeat offenses, etc.
It isn’t a stretch to get from these laws to deporting illegal migrants who broke other laws... like, how about immigration laws?
...who somehow and oddly happened to listen to their constituents.
Yeah this bill is basically propaganda for the notion that invading itself is not a big deal.
+1
More proof that Democrats are pro-crime.
It’s headed over to the Senate.
If the Republicans are smart (which is expecting too much) they can beat Democrats over the head with this issue in November as it will for sure be killed either in the Senate or by a veto.
Republicans might be able to sway a few suburban soccer moms into voting for them.
Agree, and it is expecting too much :(
Illegals shouldn’t have driving privileges anyway. When I lived in South Florida many illegals carried fake insurance cards and if they caused an accident there was nobody to collect from. Happened to a friend of mine whose trailer was damaged from one of them. He went to the police and reported the fake insurance card but the cops just brushed him off and said there was nothing they could do. Another guy I knew in California had a drunk illegal crash into his house causing extensive damage and he had no insurance either.
Nothing Burger. The legislation should say MUST. This sounds like it is left it up to this administration and a liberal beauracracy.
They had some retired NY cop lieutenant on Fox this morning claiming that those illegals who beat up the cops in NY and then released with no bail couldn’t be deported!
He said that Venezuela wouldn’t take them back!
What The Hell Is He Talking About?🤬
The home country of All This Trash can Refuse to take them back!?
What will those countries do if we drop them from the air!🤔
Know doubt about it.......
Why do we need this law? Every illegal should be deported.
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