The House passed the Laken Riley Act on Thursday afternoon. All Republican members who were present voted in favor of the bill. Thirty-seven Democrats supported it.
Freshman Republican Rep. Mike Collins (GA) introduced the legislation. It requires ICE to detain any illegal alien who committed burglary or theft. The bill honors Laken Hope Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered by an illegal alien while jogging in broad daylight on the University of Georgia campus. She died of blunt-force trauma to her head. Her skull was bashed in by the animal who killed her. The killer had previously been picked up in New York for crime and in Georgia for shoplifting and released.
Speaker Johnson said that Republicans responded to the tragedy created by President Biden’s border crisis. The open southern border is a magnet for criminals entering the country.
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