Elon Musk-backed bill to deport immigrants with sex convictions to get a House vote

INTERMEDIATE: The House is set to vote next week on a bill that would authorize the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes.

The law has seen enthusiastic support in the past few days from billionaire Elon Musk, who has criticized Democrats who have been against it.

The Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act was first introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C., last year and passed the House with bipartisan support. All Republican lawmakers voted for the bill, along with 51 House Democrats.

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Because it was not taken up by the Democrat-controlled Senate, however, Mace introduced the bill again on Friday to start the process again in the new 119th Congress.

“Let’s pass it in both chambers of Congress,” Mace wrote on social media over the weekend.

Two sources told Fox News Digital that House GOP leaders intend to hold another vote on it next week, which will come just days before President-elect Trump’s inauguration.

It is one of several border security and other conservative policy bills introduced by House Republicans on Friday – the first day of the 119th Congress.

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Mace previously introduced this bill last year. (Getty Images)

Over the weekend, Musk called out challengers to Democrats who voted against the bill in September.

“There are no excuses. Please send a list of people who oppose this law and want to keep illegal sex offenders in America,” Musk wrote in X in response to a conservative activist discussing the bill. “They all need to be voted out of office. Each and every one of them.”

GOP lawmakers signaled that they want to waste no time in crafting their agenda after the November election in which Republicans retain the House while taking the White House and the Senate.

Former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer never took up the bill. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

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In addition to Mace withdrawing his bill, Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Mike Collins, R-Ga., also introduced their own legislation that passed the House last year but did not see a Senate vote.

Roy introduced a bill mandating proof of citizenship in the voter registration process, while Collins spearheaded legislation to direct federal immigration authorities to detain and apprehend illegal aliens who commit theft-related crimes, such as shoplifting, as defined by the state and local government. the law.

The final bill is expected to be voted on by the rest of the House this week.