Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin sided with illegal immigrants on Wednesday, voting against legislation that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.

While it’s currently illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 blocks states from confirming citizenship status.

HR 8281, known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, aims to change that by requiring individuals registering to vote to provide proof of citizenship to participate in federal elections, and requiring states to clear voter rolls of registered noncitizens.

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Despite Slotkin’s opposition, the SAVE Act cleared the lower chamber on a vote of 221-198, with five Democrats in support. It now heads to the Senate, where it’s expected to face opposition from the Democratic majority.

Slotkin hasn’t bothered to explain her no vote on the measure, but Senate Republicans called her and other Democrats out by name for neglecting to support the bill.

“BREAKING: Radical Democrats @RubenGalleo, @ElissaSlotkin, and @ColinAllredTX just voted to make it easier for illegal immigrants to vote in our elections,” read the X post from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

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Slotkin is the Democratic frontrunner for the U.S. Senate seat left open with the retirement of Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, and she’s expected to face off against former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, though both face primary challengers.

While Rogers has repeatedly highlighted how the open border has translated into crimes, drugs, and violence in Michigan, Slotkin has worked to downplay those issues while voting to protect those who cross the southern border illegally.

In May, Michigan State Police allege previously deported illegal immigrant Brandon Ortiz-Vite shot Grand Rapids’ Ruby Garcia multiple times with an illegally purchased handgun, before dumping the woman’s body along US-131.

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After ignoring the gruesome murder for weeks, Slotkin eventually discussed the situation in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, downplaying the killing as one of many domestic violence incidents in the region.

“It’s a terrible, horrible, gruesome death on top of a number of domestic violence incidents we’re having in that area,” she said, never acknowledging Ortiz-Vite’s immigration status.

Just over a month later, Slotkin voted against consideration of the Laken Riley Act that would require detention and deportation of illegal immigrants arrested for serious crimes. The bill was named after a 22-year-old nursing student at the University of Augusta who was murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal Venezuelan immigrant with a previous criminal record.

Slotkin eventually voted for the bill, but days later voted against House Resolution 7109, known as the Equal Representation Act, to exclude noncitizens from the decennial census used to apportion congressional representation and electoral votes in presidential elections.

Other Slotkin votes in support of President Biden’s border policies include twice opposing a resolution in February to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors related to his oversight of the immigration crisis. That resolution eventually passed the lower chamber on a party-line vote.

Slotkin also supported Biden’s Build Back Better Plan, which according to Yahoo! News, “would create the largest mass-legalization program for undocumented immigrants in U.S. History,” as well as a $3 trillion HEROES Act that extended $1,500 relief checks to illegal immigrants who used Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers instead of Social Security numbers.

In another vote for the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021, Slotkin backed what The Heritage Foundation described as “amnesty and green cards to millions of illegal immigrants” through a program that “is prone to fraud and is an immoral solution to the illegal immigration problem.”