The House is set to revisit the 'Laken Riley Act,' a bill aimed at holding the Biden administration accountable for border policies, citing the murder of Laken Riley as a tragic consequence.
Reintroduced by Georgia Rep. Mike Collins, a Republican, the legislation pins Laken Riley's death on the Biden administration's open-border policies and grants power to attorneys general to sue the federal government if they can show their states are being harmed over failure to implement national immigration policies. The measure also allows states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to citizens allegedly due to illegal immigration.
'If you polled the populace and the voters, they would tell you that that was the top of the list, and we have a lot to do there to fix it. It's an absolute disaster because of what has happened over the last four years, and the Laken Riley Act is a big part of that,' House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday. while jogging on campus at the University of Georgia. Ibarra was sentenced to life in prison for the murder. 'The only thing President Biden did after Laken's tragic death was apologize for calling her murderer an illegal,' Johnson added. 'That's outrageous. We all know the real victim here was young Laken. There are real consequences to policy decisions. This one was deadly.' In this March 9, 2024, file photo, a supporter holds a poster with a photo of Laken Riley before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Rome Ga. The House previously passed the bill in March by a vote of 251-170, with 37 Democrats voting in favor. The bill is expected to pass again with bipartisan support. 'When we brought this bill forward last Congress, shockingly, amazingly to me, 170 House Democrats voted against that legislation,' Johnson said. 'But as Democrats struggle with their identity now as a party post-election, we'll find out if they're still clinging into that open border policy and that mantra despite the American people roundly rejecting all that in November. We'll se
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