Laken Riley Act

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to hold in detention certain noncitizens who are in the country unlawfully or lacked proper documents and have been charged with, arrested for, or convicted of crimes like burglary, theft, or shoplifting. It also allows state governments to sue the federal government over certain immigration enforcement decisions or failures — such as releasing a noncitizen from custody, not properly screening people at the border, or not detaining someone who has been ordered to leave the country — if those actions caused harm to the state or its residents, including financial harm of more than $100.

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