Politicians used to write bills pandering to American voters in election years. Now a bill in the House panders to deported criminals living in foreign countries. Chicago-area Rep. Jesús “Chuy” Garcia and 44 Democratic co-sponsors—including three other lawmakers from gang-ravaged Chicago—recently introduced a radical immigration bill called the New Way Forward Act that seeks, as per a press release from Mr. Garcia, to “disrupt the prison to deportation pipeline.”

The bill would make it more difficult for U.S. authorities to...