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Shop NowThe House kicked off 2025 by focusing their attention on border security. Amazingly, 48 Democrats voted in favor of the Laken Riley Act. The first Republican led bill of the year requires “detention of migrants arrested for theft.” It was named for the Georgia student viciously murdered by an illegal alien.
House passes first bill
House Republicans aren’t waiting for President Donald Trump to be officially sworn in to start enacting his agenda.
As The Hill reports, conservatives “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 migrants arrested for theft.”
Republicans didn’t have to sweat the razor thin majority they hold in the lower chamber because the measure passed easily with bipartisan support. Democrats from 48 jurisdictions with vocal conservative constituents bucked the party to vote yes on the legislation.
Now that it has cleared the House, it will be sent to the Senate for their approval. That’s not expected to be an issue. The final version should be sitting on Trump’s desk to sign, the moment he’s sworn back in.
The final tally on the Laken Riley act was an astounding 264-159. The Senate has already expressed willingness to “take up the legislation this week.” Ms. Riley was brutally murdered by a Venezuelan migrant. The violent gang member had previously been arrested for shoplifting.
Liberal prosecutors and judges in the sanctuary city of New York promptly turned him loose. It’s no wonder he thought he could easily get away with murder. Timing on the House version of the bill couldn’t have been any better.
Senate vote Friday
If all goes well, the Senate could be voting to approve the bill as early as Friday. That would have special significance because that would have been Ms. Riley’s birthday.
The House had passed a similar version of the bill recently but it stalled in the Democrat controlled Senate. That won’t be an issue, this time around.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is optimistic that the measure will become law as soon as Trump can sign it. “We’ve been very focused on border security,” Scalise announced. “The Laken Riley Act makes it clear, if you’re committing crimes in America against people, it’s not going to be tolerated.”
Even better than that, he notes, “with [Senate Majority Leader John Thune] saying he’s gonna bring it up in the Senate as early as this week, we can actually get that bill signed into law.”
Progressives are totally livid. Illegal aliens can be detained simply on charges of a crime, “not when prosecutors have secured a conviction.” Prosecutors have been a major part of the problem because they have no interest in securing a conviction.
They prefer every criminal, especially ones who are bone fide citizens, be released into a “diversion program.” The House isn’t about to stand to allow illegal border jumping criminals to wander around loose committing worse crimes while they’re in “counseling” for the issue.
