A congressional bill inspired by the murder of an Augusta University nursing student studying at an Athens satellite campus heads to the Senate on Friday.
The Laken Riley Act, House Resolution 29, passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday. If passed into law, it would require federal immigration officers to arrest and detain migrants who commit nonviolent crimes but are in the United States illegally.
“As our first legislative measure of the 119th Congress, today’s bipartisan passage of H.R. 29 sends a clear message that the days of lawlessness and chaos at our southern border are over,” said U.S. Rep. Rick Allen, who represents the Augusta area and voted in favor of the bill…