The House of Representatives passed the amended Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, handing President Donald Trump his first big legislative win. The bill, named after a murdered Georgia nursing student, requires criminal migrants lacking legal status to be detained.
Recent polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found over half of Americans said immigration is an important priority for Trump to tackle this year.
Democrats in both the House and Senate voted to support the bill.
The House pro-Laken Riley Act Democrats, according to the House clerk’s website, included Reps. Sanford Bishop Jr. (D-Ga.), Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.), Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.), Jim Costa (D-Calif.), Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), Angie Craig (D-Minn.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), Sharice Davids (D-Kan.), Don Davis (D-N.C.), Shomari Figures (D-Ala.), Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.), Jared Golden (D-Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Adam Gray (D-Calif.), Josh Harder (D-Calif.), Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), Susie Lee (D-Nev.), Mike Levin (D-Calif.) Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) John Mannion (D-N.Y.), Lucy McBath (D-Ga.), April McClain Delaney (D-Md.), Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-Mich.), Dave Min (D-Calif.), Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Chris Pappas (D-N.H.), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.), Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.), Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.), Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio), Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), Derek Tran (D-N.Y.) and Eugene Vindman (D-Va.).
Before its passage in the House, the Laken Riley Act passed the Senate on Monday with twelve votes from Democrats including Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.).
The Laken Riley Act, written by Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., requires ICE to take custody of and detain undocumented immigrants who are charged, arrested, or convicted of committing acts of “burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.”
“It’s bittersweet,” Collins said after the vote. “For a young lady that wanted to dedicate her career and her life to saving lives, now her name will live on forever, and it will save lives.”
[h/t The Hill]
