House Republicans have voted down an effort to block immigration enforcers from using federal resources to detain or deport U.S. citizens.

During a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, Democrats tabled amendments to a sweeping budget bill that President Donald Trump has dubbed “one big, beautiful bill.”

One amendment introduced by Representative Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat from Washington state, sought to make clear Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot detain or deport U.S. citizens under any circumstances. GOP lawmakers killed that amendment.

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    PLEASE reach out to minorities for future elections. Evidence like this shows how racist the GOP is; they have to stop voting against their own interests…

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      Sorry, but my minority neighbor who voted for trump isn’t just going to succumb to logic.

      If logic was involved in the first place, we wouldn’t be here.

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        You don’t know that. It’s easy to say “we can’t reach these people” and for the most hardcore MAGA freaks, that’s true. But most people are capable of paying attention and learning from their mistakes. This shitshow is already producing a lot of Trupgret. Just look at GOP folks at town halls and prominent Republicans that would have never dared to criticize him before. It sucks but we have to keep trying to reach them…