Trump has also made immigration the focus of multiple executive orders since taking office on Monday. The bill would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to detain people who are in the United States without legal status who are arrested,
Act, Congress and Laken Riley
As it did weeks ago, the bill received unanimous support from Arizona's House Republicans. Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., also voted in favor of the measure, as Arizona's Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego did previously.
• The Laken Riley Act, passed by Congress, mandates federal detention of undocumented immigrants accused of even minor crimes. • Critics, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, argue the bill benefits private prison companies at taxpayer expense, with a price tag of $83 billion.
Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants charged with crimes, to President Trump’s desk.
The Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes
The House of Representatives has passed the Laken Riley Act again and is sending it to President Donald Trump's desk.
The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, handing an early legislative win to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans,
A group of nine House Republicans, led by Rep. Riley Moore, is pushing a bill to allow President Donald Trump to use tariffs in his negotiations with foreign powers.
The Laken Riley Act is set to be the first bill Trump signs into law after it passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support.
President Trump revoked a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule for federal contractors, but the action doesn’t repeal existing workplace discrimination laws.
President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Augusta University nursing student.