Laken Riley Act

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to hold in detention certain non-citizens who are in the country unlawfully or entered without proper documents and have been charged with, arrested for, convicted of, or admitted to committing burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. The bill also lets state governments sue the federal government over certain immigration enforcement decisions or failures, such as releasing a non-citizen from custody, not properly screening people at the border, not following rules about granting parole to enter the country, or not detaining someone who has been ordered to leave the United States. States can bring these lawsuits if the federal government's actions or failures caused harm to the state or its residents, including financial harm of more than $100.

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