Congress sends Laken Riley Act to Trump's desk as first bill of GOP's Washington takeover

The Republican Party's Laken Riley Act is heading to President Donald Trump’s table to go the archetypal measure helium signs into instrumentality aft the enactment retook some chambers of Congress and the White House.

The House of Representatives passed the measure successful a 263 to 156 ballot connected Wednesday, the 2nd clip the little enclosure precocious the measure this month.

It passed the House 264 to 159 connected Jan. 7. All voting Republicans supported the bill, on with 48 Democrats – 2 much than the astir caller vote.

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The GOP-controlled Senate besides precocious the measure successful a bipartisan 64 to 35 vote, but added measures to deport amerciable immigrants who battle a constabulary serviceman oregon origin decease oregon "serious bodily injury" of different person.

The archetypal measure would nonstop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to detain amerciable immigrants accused of theft-related crimes. It besides would let states to writer the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their citizens due to the fact that of amerciable immigration.

The bulk of Democrats were against the bill, arguing that allowing radical accused but not convicted of crimes to beryllium deported is simply a slippery slope. But supporters of the measure constituent retired that radical present illegally person already tally afoul of U.S. law.

It’s notable, however, that much Democrats supported the measure erstwhile it passed the House this period than erstwhile it archetypal came up for a ballot successful 2024. It’s a marked quality from past twelvemonth erstwhile the then-Democrat-controlled Senate did not adjacent instrumentality up the measure for a vote.

"Nothing ever happens successful this municipality up present until the American radical request it," the bill’s leader, Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked astir the accrued enactment from the left. 

"And they person been screaming astatine the apical of their lungs for thing to hap to hole the borderline problem."

Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, who led Sarah's Law, 1 of the amendments adopted successful the bill, told Fox News Digital, "Nearly a decennary ago, 21-year-old Sarah Root's beingness was tragically chopped abbreviated erstwhile she was killed by an amerciable migrant who was driving portion drunk…Sarah's Law not lone delivered justness for the Root household but besides ensures that immoderate amerciable migrant who harms oregon kills an American national is swiftly detained and prosecuted."

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GOP lawmakers are moving to follow done connected Trump’s promises to ace down connected amerciable migration and borderline information amid a flurry of enforcement orders from the president connected those aforesaid issues. They’re positioning the Laken Riley Act arsenic the archetypal measure to get Trump’s signature arsenic a reflection of their effort to marque his docket permanent.

The measure is named aft a nursing pupil who was killed by an amerciable migrant portion jogging connected the University of Georgia's campus.

Jose Ibarra, who was sentenced to beingness successful situation for Laken Riley's murder, had antecedently been arrested but was ne'er detained by ICE.