ComplicityS. 5
Laken Riley Act
Wednesday, January 29, 2025•Senate Vote 7 / House Vote 23, s7-119.2025, h23-119.2025
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The first law signed in President Trump's second term, the Laken Riley Act requires mandatory detention of undocumented immigrants who are arrested for, charged with, or admit to committing theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assault on a law enforcement officer, or any crime resulting in death or serious bodily injury. It also allows state attorneys general to sue the Department of Homeland Security over immigration enforcement failures. The Senate passed it 64–35 with 12 Democrats crossing over; the House passed it 263–156 with 46 Democrats voting yes.
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Why this is Complicity
The Laken Riley Act was the first law signed in President Trump's second term and provided the legal foundation for the administration's expanded and increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement. The law mandates detention based on arrest or charge alone — not conviction — effectively lowering the threshold for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold people indefinitely. ICE itself estimated the law would cost nearly $27 billion to enforce in its first year, and by December 2025, roughly 17,500 people had been detained or turned over to ICE under its provisions.
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