The Texas House overwhelmingly voted Monday to track down and arrest more than 50 Democrat lawmakers who fled to prevent the Legislature from redrawing the state’s congressional map.

Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows said he would immediately sign civil warrants for each of the legislators, empowering the chamber’s sergeant-at-arms and state troopers to arrest and bring them to the Capitol, The Texas Tribune reported.

The Democrats will not face civil or criminal charges from the arrests. The warrants apply only within state lines, the Tribune reported, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators fled to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.

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