March 14, 2024 |
Photo – Laken Riley – Courtesy Fox News
Wyoming’s two U.S. Senators, John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, on Wednesday, joined Senators Katie Britt of Alabama and Ted Budd of North Carolina in introducing the Laken Riley Act.
Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia in Athens, was killed on February 22nd by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela while she was jogging. Her death was caused by blunt force trauma. A 26-year old illegal who had been expelled from the United States previously is charged felony murder, false imprisonment and kidnapping. A trial date has not been set.
The senate bill co-sponsored by Barrasso and Lummis would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest illegal immigrants who commit theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting offenses and would mandate they are detained until they are removed from the United States.
“Joe Biden’s border crisis has allowed nine million illegal immigrants to break our laws and pour across our southern border,” said Senator Barrasso in a statement.
The bill may have little chance of passing in the Democrat-controlled senate, but it is an election year.
Earlier this month on March 7, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an immigration bill named the Laken Riley Act, requiring federal detention of migrants who commit burglary or theft. The bill passed the House on a vote of 251-170.
