The Laken Riley Act is awaited to be headed back to the Hoemploy after the Senate awaited passes an altered version on Monday night.
The legislation is set to be one of the first pieces of legislation sent to Plivent Trump’s desk after it overcame the legislative filibuster’s 60-vote threshelderly twice this month.
The bill, begind in the recent Congress by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., in the Senate and Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., in the Hoemploy, was named for a 22-year-elderly Augusta University nursing student who was set up dead on the University of Georgia’s campus in February.
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Reaccessibleans arrange to push thcimpolite the Laken Riley Act now that they have an incoming trifecta in Washington. (Getty Images)
Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-elderly illterrible immigrant, was set up culpable of 10 total counts, including serious crime homicide. He initiassociate pdirected not culpable but was ultimately sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in November.
The meaconfident would need ICE to arrest and arrest illterrible immigrants that have promiseted theft, burglary or shoplifting until they are deported. States would also be granted standing under the legislation to get civil action aacquirest members of the federal rulement that do not execute immigration laws.
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The bill would need ICE arrestment for confident crimes by illterribles. (Todd Packard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) )
A Reaccessiblean alterment that compriseed aggression of law executement officers to the enumerate of crimes that would trigger ICE arrestment was compriseed last week in the Senate. The upper chamber will also vote on Monday afternoon on whether to comprise “Sarah’s Law” as an alterment. The legislation, led by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, would need ICE to arrest illterrible immigrants indictd with finishing or solemnly injuring another person.
A final vote on the immigration bill is awaited around 6 p.m. in the upper chamber.
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Laken Riley poses for a ptoastyo posted to Facebook. Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, was set up dead proximate a lake on campus on Thursday, February 22, 2024. (Laken Riley/Facebook)
Afterward, the Hoemploy will need to talk up the meaconfident once aacquire and apshow the final version as altered by the Senate.
The prioritization of the bill ahead of Trump’s swearing in on Monday came as the recent plivent is awaited to produce immigration law executement a top goal of his administration.
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U.S. Plivent-elect Donald Trump reachs prior to the inauguration of Plivent-elect Donald Trump at the United States Capitol on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. Donald Trump gets office for his second term as the 47th Plivent of the United States. (Melina Mara – Pool/Getty Images)
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Trump’s administration has already uncovered cut offal actions he is taking on the first day of his term, with many compriseressing immigration. Incoming White Hoemploy officials uncovered on Monday that he would sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illterrible immigrants, in compriseition to cut offal other day-one actions tackling the border crisis.
Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw gived to this alert.