Republicans Say This Anti-Immigrant Bill Will Protect Victims of Abuse. It Will Do the Opposite.

Members of Congress are once again using horrific acts of violence against women to lay the groundwork for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan — this time with a bill that would put some domestic violence survivors at greater risk of deportation.

“This is part of a larger wave that is using the language of public safety and protecting women to actually enact these policies that are mass deportation and mass detention bills,” said Zain Lakhani, director of Migrant Rights and Justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission. “They claim to protect women, but if you actually look at what they’re doing, they’re making the situation more dangerous.”