House passes immigration crackdown as first act of 2025

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House passes immigration crackdown as first act of 2025​

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Snow falls at the US Capitol in Washington on an. 6, 2025. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The 119th House passed its first bill of 2025 Tuesday: The Laken Riley Act, which would require the detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for certain non-violent crimes such as theft.

Why it matters: It's a sign of just how central immigration and border security will be for Republicans under the incoming Trump administration.
  • The party spent the last four years railing against what they said was the Biden administration's dereliction on border security.
Driving the news: The bill — named for a 22-year-old nursing student who was killed on the University of Georgia campus last year — passed 264-159, with 48 Democrats siding with Republicans in voting for it

  • The bill was one of a dozen pieces of legislation listed in the House GOP's rules package that passed last week, allowing it to be voted on under a streamlined process.
  • The House previously passed the bill last March, with 37 Democrats voting in favor of it, but it did not get a vote in the then-Democratic Senate.
  • Several Democrats who previously opposed the bill, including several committee ranking members and Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.), who represents a district not far from UGA, voted for it this time around.
Zoom in: Republicans frequently pointed to Riley's murder at the hands of an undocumented immigrant who had previously been arrested on theft-related charges as evidence of the need for stronger border policies.

 
Kurmugeon said:
It is a start.

It is not a solution, yet.

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Indeed.

The solution starts on Jan. 20.

There were 159 Democrats who voted against a bill honoring Laken Riley and which would require the detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for certain non-violent crimes such as theft.

These Democrats still do not get it and will continue to lose.

Just being undocumented will result in deportation, as the law requires.
 
Earl said:
Indeed.

The solution starts on Jan. 20.

There were 159 Democrats who voted against a bill honoring Laken Riley and which would require the detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for certain non-violent crimes such as theft.

These Democrats still do not get it and will continue to lose.

Just being undocumented will result in deportation, as the law requires.
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There are so many things wrong with the open borders movement, that it will require a large number of novel approaches to resolve it.


A big part of the solution is very stiff penalties for anyone who hires an illegal. Random work site inspections. Fines and even prison time for managers who hire an illegal.


We also need to insure that anyone who gives anything to an illegal is severely punished, even just a bottle of water. I am not saying that illegals should not be given all the water they need!


But anything given to an illegal, water, food, shelter, clothes, phones... anything, should come from one and ONLY one source, the INS. At those gifts should be just enough to keep them safe until deportation transport can be arranged.


This bill is a start, but only a start.

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Diogenes said:
I wonder why.
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They don’t give a rat’s culo about the multitude of victims like Laken Riley.

Assaults, rapes, murders by illegals who have no legal right to be in America.

They have lost the American people on the border issue…and most other issues.
 
Earl said:
They don’t give a rat’s culo about the multitude of victims like Laken Riley. Assaults, rapes, murders by illegals who have no legal right to be in America. They have lost the American people on the border issue…and most other issues.
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They can still print ballots and count them without verification, can't they?
 
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