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House committee hears partisan debate over bill to make DUI grounds for inadmissibility and removal
Summary
H.R.875 would make driving while intoxicated by a non‑U.S. national a ground for denying admission or deporting the person; its supporters presented fatal crash cases, while opponents said the measure duplicates existing deportability grounds and could produce unfair results without careful drafting.
Representative Moore, appearing before the Rules Committee, described H.R.875 — the Jeremy and Angel and Sergeant Brandon Mendoza Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act — as a bipartisan common‑sense response to fatalities caused by intoxicated drivers and said the bill would make drunk driving a ground for inadmissibility and removal. He cited multiple cases in which noncitizen drivers who had previous DUI arrests later caused fatal crashes.
Opponents in committee hearings and questioning argued the…
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