Laken Riley Act

This law requires the Department of Homeland Security to hold in detention certain non-citizens who are in the country unlawfully or lack proper documents and have been charged with, arrested for, or convicted of crimes like burglary, theft, shoplifting, assault on a police officer, or crimes that cause death or serious injury. It also lets state governments sue the federal government if they believe federal officials made immigration-related decisions or failed to follow immigration rules in ways that caused harm to the state or its residents, including financial harm over $100. States can sue over things like releasing a non-citizen from custody, not properly screening people at the border, not following rules about asylum interviews, or failing to detain someone who has been ordered to leave the country.

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