Seven House Democrats flipped their votes to “yes” on a GOP-led bill named after the slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require detention of migrants arrested for theft. The Laken Riley Act became the first House bill passed this year ...

Six Democrats — Reps. Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Val Hoyle (D-OR), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Joe Morelle (D-NY), Terri Sewell (D-AL), and Ritchie Torres (D-NY) — who voted against the bill in March ...

The US Senate this week could vote on the Laken Riley Act and approve it in time for the incoming president to sign it into law on day one.

Seven of the 11 Democratic senators up for re-election in 2026 voted to advance the bill, including Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Gary Peters of Michigan, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Warner of Virginia, John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico.