The Senate has passed, 64–35, legislation that requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain illegal immigrants arrested for theft, burglary, or shoplifting.
The legislation also allows states to sue the federal government if it fails to follow procedures related to immigration, such as properly vetting immigrants seeking to come to the United States.
“Now is the time to return to law and order,” Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said ahead of the bill’s passage. “We are a proud nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws, and the lawlessness ends today.”
The Laken Riley Act, named after a Georgia nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant in February 2024, was the first bill to pass the House in the 119th Congress….