U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-D5) has proposed legislation which would allow for the death penalty being applied as a sentence to illegal immigrants convicted of committing rape or sexual abuse while in the country illegally.
Rep. Ogles filed the bill in Congress last week, otherwise known as the Justice for American Women and Children Act of 2024.
Under the proposed law, “Whoever commits an offense under this section while present in the United States without lawful status under the immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act) may be sentenced to death.’’
In a statement Nashville TV station WZTV, Ogles cites an illegal immigrant in Franklin, Tennessee which had been jailed for recording himself allegedly raping at least 15 unconscious young boys. “Foreign rapists know that they can illegally enter our country, commit their horrific crimes, and, at most, get sentenced to time in an American prison, which is often luxurious compared to the prisons in their home countries where they’d otherwise likely rot,” Rep. Ogles says. ” We must remove this incentive for rapists to flood our country by letting them know that if they are here illegally to brutally assault and rape vulnerable Americans, they could face the death penalty, the strictest penalty available in our country.
