170 Dems vote against bill to require detention of illegal immigrant criminals

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Just 37 House Democrats voted with 214 Republicans to pass the bill.
Arjun Singh
March 8, 2024

(Daily Caller News Foundation) — Over half the House Democratic Caucus voted against the Laken Riley Act Thursday, a bill named after a murdered nursing student that would force the detention of illegal migrants in the U.S. who commit certain crimes.

Riley allegedly was killed on Feb. 22 by Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who entered the United States unlawfully in 2022 and had been previously arrested in New York City, until he was released. In response, the House of Representatives passed a bill, named in Riley’s honor, that would require the detention of such individuals if they commit petty crimes of burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting, which 170 House Democrats voted against.

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*Among those House Democrats who voted in favor of the bill were the party’s candidates running for the Senate in 2024 in competitive races: Reps. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Colin Allred of Texas and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. Several swing district Democrats also voted in favor, such as Reps. Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania, Angie Craig of Minnesota, Mary Peltola of Alaska and newly re-elected Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York, who won a special election on Feb. 13 to the seat previously held by George Santos.

Apart from requiring the detention of individuals, the bill would grant states the right to sue the federal government for the non-enforcement of several immigration laws, such as the inspection of foreign nationals entering the country, the apprehension of such individuals who commit aggravated felonies and the general grants of humanitarian parole to classes of foreign nationals seeking asylum, some of whom enter the country lawfully. The Biden administration has established several programs that permit humanitarian parole to nationals of certain countries facing internal crises, such as Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ukraine.

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* Its called Politics, and $20.00 says they got the OK  from the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.