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According to a Fox News report, the Laken Riley Act defeated the legislative filibuster during a procedural vote on Thursday 84-9, with many Democrats signaling they would support the immigration legislation.

The bill was quickly re-introduced by Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) in the Senate and Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) in the House once the new Congress began.

“Today’s vote on the Laken Riley Act is an important step forward in making our country safer, but there’s still more work to be done to get this commonsense legislation across the finish line,” Britt said in a statement.

“Laken’s horrific murder should never have happened. While we cannot bring Laken back, Congress can and must pass the Laken Riley Act to save American lives and prevent this tragedy from repeating itself. Congress has an obligation to Laken, her family, and to Americans in every corner of our country to get this bill passed and signed into law,” Britt’s statement continued.

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The bill was named for a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student who was found dead on the University of Georgia’s campus in February. Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant, was found guilty of 10 total counts, including felony murder. He initially pleaded not guilty but was ultimately sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in November.

Britt and Collins’ bill would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and detain illegal immigrants that have committed theft, burglary or shoplifting until they are deported. States would also be granted standing under the legislation to take civil action against members of the federal government that do not enforce immigration laws.

The measure was blessed by new Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who teed it up to be the first major vote in the upper chamber.

While the Laken Riley Act has strong bipartisan support, Democrats have signaled they may want amendments to the bill.

“This is an important issue. We should have a debate and amendments,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a floor speech before he voted to proceed with debate. “To remind my colleagues, this is not a vote on the bill itself. It is a motion to proceed, a vote that says we should have a debate and should have amendments.”

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has officially signed on as a co-sponsor to the Laken Riley Act, stressing in a recent interview that Democrats’ immigration policies is one of the reasons they lost big in the 2024 election.

“We have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally that have been convicted of crimes,” Fetterman told Fox News’ Bret Baier during a recent interview. “Who wants to allow them to remain in our nation? I don’t know why anybody thinks it’s controversial that they all need to go.”

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As of Thursday morning, 13 Democrats said they would vote to advance the bill.

Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Gallego, Gary Peters, D-Mich., John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., Angus King, I-Maine, Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Fetterman, each said they would vote yes on the procedural hurdle.

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