In a cynical ploy to pander to anti-immigrant fears, the Republican U.S. House passed Kate's Law that imposes mandatory minimum sentences for undocumented immigrants who are charged with a crime.

As some experts have noted, Kate's Law would "suck up every dime you saved from criminal justice reform and negate." It is a dangerous step backwards, at a time when those on both sides of the spectrum have acknowledged that the War on Drugs failed—and we need to stop needlessly swelling our prison population.

We expect Republicans to pass such awful measures, but 24 House Democrats joined 233 House Republicans in voting "yes" on Kate's Law. Some even come from safe-blue districts where there was absolutely no politically expedient reason for doing so.

Sign the petition: Denounce the 24 House Democrats for voting to swell our prison population.

The 24 House Democrats are: Arizona-01 Tom O'Halleran, Arizona-09 Kyrsten Sinema, California-14 Jackie Speier, California-15 Eric Swalwell, Connecticut-01 John Larson, Connecticut-02 Joe Courtney, Connecticut-05 Elizabeth Etsy, Florida-07 Stephanie Murphy, Florida-10 Val Demings, Florida-13 Charlie Crist, Illinois-03 Dan Lipinski, Massachusetts-08 Stephen Lynch, Massachusetts-09 Bill Keating, Maryland-02 Dutch Ruppersberger, Minnesota-07 Collin Peterson, New Hampshire-02 Annie Kuster, New Jersey-05 Josh Gottheimer, New York-26 Brian Higgins, Oregon-04 Peter DeFazio, Pennsylvania-17 Matt Cartwright, Rhode Island-02 Jim Langevin, Tennessee-05 Jim Cooper, Texas-28 Henry Cuellar and Wisconsin-03 Ron Kind.