The GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass the Laken Riley Act, a bill that prioritizes the arrest of some criminal illegal aliens. Every Republican who voted and 48 Democrats voted in support of the bill, though three GOP members and eight Democrats did not vote.
The bill is named after Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was murdered by an illegal alien in February 2024. The act, also known as HR 29, was the first piece of federal legislation taken up by the new 119th Congress. And for freshmen lawmakers like Rep. Addison McDowell, R-N.C., it was the first piece of legislation he voted on as a sitting member of Congress.
“Laken Riley would be alive today if the Biden administration had prioritized the safety of our citizens over their open-borders agenda,” McDowell told The Daily Signal in an email…
