{"id":21975,"date":"2026-03-19T20:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/a-straightforward-vote-on-protecting-police-dogs-dems-went-which-way\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:11:45","slug":"a-straightforward-vote-on-protecting-police-dogs-dems-went-which-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/a-straightforward-vote-on-protecting-police-dogs-dems-went-which-way\/","title":{"rendered":"A Straightforward Vote On Protecting Police Dogs \u2014 Dems Went Which Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>Only 15 Democrats were willing to vote with Republicans on Thursday on a measure that would make non-citizens who harmed police animals \u2014 such as dogs or horses \u2014 either inadmissible or subject to deportation.<\/p>\n<p>The BOWOW Act <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CraigCaplan\/status\/2034639336612745286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed the U.S. House<\/a> on Thursday by a margin of 228-190, with every Republican voting in favor of the legislation. It will head to the Senate next.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/calvert.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-calverts-bowow-act-advanced-judiciary-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced<\/a> the bill in June of 2025 \u201cafter Freddie, a Customs and Border Patrol agriculture detector dog, was <a class=\"ext\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/egyptian-traveler-eats-federal-charges-kicking-dulles-cbp-beagle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" data-entity-type=\"external\" data-extlink=\"\">assaulted<\/a> in June by a non-citizen from Egypt\u201d \u2014 and the House Judiciary Committee voted to advance the measure in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee advancing the BOWOW Act and joining me in standing up for our law enforcement animals who help keep Americans safe. Coming to America is a privilege, not a right. Anyone who assaults an animal, like Freddie, simply has no place in our country,\u201d Calvert said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the bill, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/4638\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official description<\/a>, is \u201cto amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deem any alien who has been convicted of or admits to harming a federal law enforcement animal as inadmissible and deportable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill would affect non-citizens who were convicted under 18 U.S.C. 1368 \u2014 which pertains to the abuse of animals used in federal law enforcement such as service dogs and horses \u2014 or those who have admitted to assaulting such animals. Anyone who fit that description would either be inadmissible to the United States or subject to deportation.<\/p>\n<p>The 15 Democrats who voted in favor of the bill were as follows: Reps. Henry Cuellar (TX), Sharice Davids (KS), Don Davis (NC), John Garamendi (CA), Jared Golden (ME), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Adam Gray (CA), Chrissy Houlahan (PA), Greg Landsman (OH), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), Josh Riley (NY), Eric Sorensen (IL), Tom Suozzi (NY), and Eugene Vindman (VA).<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA), in his first vote since leaving the Republican Party, also voted with the Republicans in favor of the measure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-straightforward-vote-on-protecting-police-dogs-dems-went-which-way\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 15 Democrats were willing to vote with Republicans on Thursday on a measure that would make non-citizens who harmed police animals \u2014 such as dogs or horses \u2014 either inadmissible or subject to deportation. The BOWOW Act passed the U.S. House on Thursday by a margin of 228-190, with every Republican voting in favor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}