House Democrats are apparently sensing the message voters delivered in November regarding concerns over the border crisis, with more than five dozen of them voting Thursday to approve a bill that would make sexual and domestic violence crimes deportable offenses.

The House approved the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., by a 274-145 margin, with 61 Democrats joining the Republican majority. It is the second major immigration bill to receive bipartisan support in the House this year, with lawmakers approving the Laken Riley Act on Jan. 8 by a 264-159 margin, with 48 Democrats supporting the bill named for the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was murdered by an illegal immigrant last year.

Many Democrats who supported Mace’s bill were from battleground states. But the fact that some were fervent liberals, such as Reps. James Clyburn of South Carolina, and Eric Swalwell and Ro Khanna of California, showed that those on the left are reading the political tea leaves better than they were heading into November’s election.

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