It was a busy week in Washington as President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Lawmakers in Congress were busy voting on bills themselves, finally passing the long-discussed Laken Riley Act.
The bill requires the detention of illegal immigrants accused of theft-related crimes, as well as assaults on law enforcement officers.
Laken Riley was a Georgia nursing student that was killed while on a jog by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela named Jose Ibarra on February 22nd of last year.
West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito voted in favor of the bill, and says Laken Riley would be alive today if the policy had been in place sooner.
“The person who murdered her was caught by the police several times breaking the law, knowingly as an illegal, knowing he was here illegally, and yet he was put back on the street to perform this heinous act, of a young woman who was in nursing school, going out for a jog down in Georgia. It was very bipartisan, the President, that will be the first bill that he signs into law.”
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
The Laken Riley Act also empowers state Attorneys General to sue the Federal government for harm caused by illegal immigration.