Washington, D.C. — Today, Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) spoke at a press conference alongside Senators Katie Britt (R-AL), Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), and other Senate leaders after voting to advance the Laken Riley Act.
“We can’t let something like this happen again… I can’t think of a single reason why any senator would oppose the Laken Riley Act,” Budd said.
Senators Budd and Britt led the reintroduction of the Laken Riley Act earlier this week. The bill is led in the House by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA).
The bill would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest illegal aliens who commit theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting offenses and would mandate that these aliens are detained until they are removed from the United States.
The legislation also empowers state attorneys general to sue the Secretary of Homeland Security for taking actions on immigration that harm their states or their citizens.
The bill is named after 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was murdered by an illegal alien on campus last year, who had been previously cited for theft and shoplifting but was released.
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