Several Republicans joined House Democrats on Wednesday to kill a GOP effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) over a chaotic scrum with law enforcement that unfolded as a group of officials attempted to tour a detention center and immigration agents arrested the Newark mayor.

A Democratic effort to table the censure motion was approved 215-207. The censure proposal was sponsored by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), and would also have removed McIver from her post on the House Homeland Security Committee.

GOP Reps. Kevin Kiley (Calif.), Don Bacon (Neb.), David Joyce (Ohio), Mike Turner (Ohio) and David Valadao (Calif.) sided with Democrats to crush the measure, while House Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) voted "present."

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