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24 House Democrats side with GOP, vote for Kate’s Law

By Emily Jashinsky

Published June 30, 2017 2:15pm ET

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24 House Democrats side with GOP, vote for Kate’s Law — A handful of House Democrats voted in support of Kate's Law, a bill that increases the penalties for deported felons who return to the United States illegally. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, right, a suspect at the center of a national immigration debate, accidentally fired the shot that killed Kate Steinle on San Francisco's Pier 14. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File) | Michael Macor

A handful of Democrats in the House of Representatives defected from their party line to support Kate’s Law, a bill that increases the penalties for deported felons who return to the United States illegally.

On Thursday, 24 Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the legislation, though 166 other members of the caucus voted no on the bill. Only one Republican, Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., voted against it.

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