Senate Advances the Laken Riley Act
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Senate Advances the Laken Riley Act
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The Laken Riley Act made it through its first hurdle in the Senate with strong bipartisan support. Will it eventually make it to the President’s desk?
From The Hill. The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly cleared a key procedural hurdle toward passing the Laken Riley Act, a bill aimed at curbing crime by migrants, in the first vote of the year by the chamber.
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Senators cleared the first vote 84 to 9, with 33 Senate Democrats — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — joining with every Republican present to vote “yes.” The legislation would mandate federal detention of immigrants without legal status accused of theft, burglary and other related crimes.
“The Laken Riley Act presents the Senate a simple choice: Are you willing to allow illegal immigrant criminals to roam free in our country? Or do you want to save American lives?” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said on the Senate floor before the vote. …
Thursday marked the first step in a string of votes before the bill could become law. Senate Republicans are expecting a number of amendment votes on the item next week.
The tally comes only two days after the House cleared the same measure with 48 Democrats voting in support.
Riley, a Georgia college student, was killed in February by a Venezuelan migrant who had been arrested for shoplifting ahead of the attack and paroled in the country. Thursday’s vote took place the day before Riley’s birthday.
A number of Democrats had indicated heading into the procedural vote that they would also vote for the bill in its current form on final passage, with Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) signing on as co-sponsors. …
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The senators who voted against the Laken Riley Act:
Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Andy Kim (D-NJ)
Ed Markey (D-MA)
Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Tina Smith (D-MN)
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Dear Heavenly Father, all of us have sinned and fallen short of Your Glory but You changed my stoney heart and I thank You forever…with all my being. I pray You will change these hearts. You are the Lord, and besides Your there is no savior. You say, whatever we bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatever we loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven. I pray You will teach these men and women something they never know and release from them all You never intended for them to know. I pray unity in the Congress, the Senate, the White House and in every family and home in this nation. I do so in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen
Romans 3:23, Isaiah 43:11, Matthew 18:18