NM DEM Reps Vote Against Bill to Deport Illegal Immigrants Who Commit Sex Crimes Against Women & Children

ALBUQUERQUE, SEPTEMBER 19—On Wednesday, 158 Democrats in Congress shocked many by voting against the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, which would ensure that illegal immigrants who have admitted to or are convicted of sexual offenses or domestic violence against women and children would be deemed inadmissible and deportable. New Mexico U.S. Democratic Representatives Melanie Stansbury (CD 1) and Teresa Leger Fernandez (CD 3) were among those Democrats who opposed the resolution.

The act was passed by a vote of 266-158, with every present Republican voting in favor.

This isn’t the first time Rep. Stansbury and Leger Fernandez have voted to protect illegal immigrants who commit crimes in the U.S. They, along with Rep. Gabe Vasquez, voted against the Laken Riley Act, which would allow the Department of Homeland Security to detain certain illegal immigrants who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. The legislation was named after Laken Riley, who was tragically murdered by an illegal immigrant who was convicted of crimes in New York and Georgia but was re-released into the U.S. by the Biden/Harris administration.

All three New Mexico Democratic representatives have refused to condemn Biden and Harris’s open-border policies, which have led to numerous female and child victims, including the following:

• Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally and sexually assaulted for two hours before being murdered by two Venezuelan illegal immigrant suspects.
• Dayana Garcia, a 25-year-old woman, was found in her house murdered by an illegal immigrant suspect who entered the country under the Harris/Biden administration.
• Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old woman, was raped and strangled to death by an illegal immigrant suspect with ties to the MS-13 gang.
• Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was raped, beaten to death, and stuffed in a drain pipe by an illegal immigrant suspect who came into our country during the Harris/Biden administration.
• Recently, a Venezuelan gang member was charged with Domestic Disorderly Conduct, two counts of Domestic Battery, Strangulation/Suffocation, Physical Abuse to a Child, Disorderly Conduct, and two counts of 2nd Degree Sexual Assault.
• A Salvadorian illegal immigrant was arrested after it was discovered he had kept two young boys locked up in chains inside a home.
• A Bolivian illegal immigrant was arrested and released multiple times over the last few months was finally arrested by ICE officials for seven felony counts of child pornography and possession of obscene material with a minor.

“Anyone with common sense and decency is wondering how someone could vote to protect illegal immigrants from deportation who have committed violent and sexually abusive acts against women and children while denying their victims the right to safety and justice,” said Republican Party of New Mexico Spokeswoman Ash Soular.” Democratic Representatives Melanie Stansbury and Teresa Leger Fernandez should be ashamed of themselves for putting the rights of illegal immigrants who commit horrendous crimes above the safety of New Mexico women and children. They have proven themselves unfit to represent our state, and New Mexicans must hold them accountable with their vote at the ballot box this November.”