Washington – the US Senate on Monday voted in favor of a law that would impose fresh obligatory requirements for immigration to immigrants responsible for real estate crimes and gave a wide legal position to the General Prosecutors.
In 82-10 voteMost of the Democrats Senate (32 and one independent, joined the Republicans.
Nine democrats voted against the act, S. 5In this sense. Tina Smith from Minnesota, Ben Ray Luján from Nowy Mexico, Jeff Merkley from Oregon, Andy Kim and Cory Booker from New Jersey, Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts and Brian Scatz and Mazie Hirono from Hawaii. The independent senator Vermont Bernie Sanders also opposed this.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, said on the floor of the Senate that the law, named after a 22-year-old student of Nursing Georgia, Lakena Riley, is “common sense, which should be undisputed so for every senator.”
Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela, was accused and convicted of Riley’s murder last month. According to American immigration and customs enforcement, Ibarra allegedly entered the country illegally in 2022 and was previously arrested in Georgia on charges of raising stores, and later he was released.
“It would be extremely disappointing if the Democrats moved to the act to simply try to load him with poison or unrelated means,” said Thune, a Republican from Southern Dakota.
The leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor that the Democrats “asked our Republican colleagues to permission to debate and vote on corrections. I hope that my Republican colleagues will allow it. “
Republicans have developed a draft act on the requirement of mandatory detention of the US Internal Security Department in the case of an immigrant of the accused or arrested of local theft, burglary or shop theft, which means that they cannot be released in the bond.
The act, which aims to include people who are not people in the country without a proper permission, may also include immigrants with discretionary legal status, such as postponed action for the children’s arrival program or DAC.
In addition, the bill gives a wide legal position to the General Prosecutors in order to question the federal immigration law, the policy of the State Department on issuing visas and decisions on bonds from immigration judges.
Last week32 Senate Democrats and one independent voted with Republicans regarding a procedural application in order to develop the law. This is the same bill that the house passed last year, but Schumer never brought a law to the floor in voting when the Democrats controlled the upper room.
The house has transferred the account Last week, this time gaining greater democratic support, 48 compared to 37 for the first time, after elections in which the security of borders was the main topic of President Elek Donald Trump.
Last updated 13:41, February 4, 2025
