House Passes ‘Laken Riley Act’ to Deport Unauthorized Immigrants Charged With Minor Crimes

• Gallego is latest Dem to back Laken Riley Act

  Politico - 4h
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  House passes Laken Riley Act as 1st bill of new GOP-controlled Congress

  Unauthorized immigrants charged with nonviolent crimes could be be deported.
  
  ABC News - 17h

• Laken Riley Act gains steam — with Democrats

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  Politico - 19h
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  House passes Laken Riley Act to amp up border enforcement and put pressure on Democrats

  The Republican-led House passed its first bill, the Laken Riley Act, a strict border measure named for the 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered.
  
  NBC News - 22h
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  Gallego goes all in on GOP's Laken Riley bill

  Arizona’s newly minted Democratic senator has announced he is backing the Laken Riley Act, a bill advocates say would eliminate due process for immigrants living in the country illegally. As his ...
  
  The Hill - 2h
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  These Democrats flipped their votes on the Laken Riley Act

  Seven House Democrats flipped their votes to "yes" on a GOP-led bill named after the slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require detention of migrants arrested for theft. The Laken Riley ...
  
  The Hill - 20h

• House passes Laken Riley Act in first bill of new Congress

  The House approved its first policy legislation of the new Congress on Tuesday with a bill aimed at addressing illegal immigration.
  
  CBS News - 20h
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  Houses passes immigration measure named after Laken Riley

  House Republicans focused their attention on the border with their first bill of the year, passing legislation named after the slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require detention of ...
  
  The Hill - 22h

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