The Republican-led House passed its first bill of the new Congress, a strict border security measure named the Laken Riley Act, in a 264-159 vote. The bill, which puts pressure on Senate Democrats to support it, aims to enhance border security measures in response to the murder of a Georgia nursing student by a man in the country illegally.
The bill, named for a nursing school student who was murdered by a man in the country illegally, passed the House last year. The new Republican-controlled Senate is expected to take it up Friday.
Appearing on the campaign trail in Georgia with Riley’s relatives, Trump seized on the issue and blamed President Joe Biden’s immigration policies for her murder. Trump’s congressional allies highlighted that Ibarra had been cited for shoplifting by a Georgia police department but that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, did not issue a detainer for him and he was not taken into custody.
“We’re going to detain and deport illegal aliens who commit burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, certainly vicious and violent crime, and I can’t believe anybody would be opposed to that,” Johnson said. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Tuesday that Democrats in his chamber, including the two moderates from Georgia, will be under immense pressure to support the bill.
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