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RepublicanAmendment · S.Amdt. 8· Senate(119-SAMDT-8)

To include crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury to the list of offenses that, if committed by an inadmissible alien, require mandatory detention.

Rep. Ernst
Age: 56 years
Iowa
Introduced
1/13/2025
Last activity
1/20/2025 — Amendment SA 8, as amended, agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 75 - 24. Record Vote Number: 6.
Sponsored by
Joni Ernst
Cosponsors
Republican - 1Democrat - 1
Changes bill
119-S-5 — Laken Riley Act
  1. Introduced
  2. Passed Senate
  3. Adopted

What this amendment would do

  • Proposed by: Ms. Ernst and Mr. Grassley (SA 8).

  • Purpose: It changes the bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take certain aliens into custody.

  • Changes to the Bill: It adds people who are charged with, arrested for, convicted of, or admit to committing burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, or any crime resulting in death or serious bodily injury.

  • Additional Definitions: It adds definitions for terms like burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, and serious bodily injury based on the laws of the place where the acts happened.

What Congress actually voted on

One recorded vote has been taken on this amendment.

  • The Senate: a vote on a proposed change to the billAmendment Agreed to 75–24

    A vote on one change, not on the bill. A bill can collect dozens of these, and losing one does not stop it.

    01/20/2025 · Roll call 6 · recorded as “On the Amendment S.Amdt. 8 to S. 5 (No short title on file)”