The House of Representatives has adopted The Laken Riley Act — securing a bipartisan majority of 251 votes in favor. But not without the objection of 170 Congressional Democrats, who The National Pulse has named below.
If adopted by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden into law, the legislation will require the detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of illegal immigrants implicated in local theft or burglary charges. The bill was drafted following the brutal murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who had prior criminal charges but was not previously detained by ICE.
THE LIST:
ALABAMA
Terri A. Sewell
CALIFORNIA
Pete Aguilar
Nanette Diaz Barragán
Ami Bera
Julia Brownley
Salud O. Carbajal
Tony Cárdenas
Judy Chu
J. Luis Correa
Mark DeSaulnier
Anna G. Eshoo
John Garamendi
Robert Garcia
Jimmy Gomez
Jared Huffman
Sara Jacobs
Sydney Kamlager-Dove
Ro Khanna
Barbara Lee
Ted Lieu
Zoe Lofgren
Doris O. Matsui
Kevin Mullin
Grace F. Napolitano
Jimmy Panetta
Nancy Pelosi
Scott H. Peters
Raul Ruiz
Linda T. Sánchez
Brad Sherman
Eric Swalwell
Mark Takano
Mike Thompson
Norma J. Torres
Juan Vargas
Maxine Waters
COLORADO
Jason Crow
Diana DeGette
Joe Neguse
Brittany Pettersen
CONNECTICUT
Rosa L. DeLauro
James A. Himes
John B. Larson
DELAWARE
Lisa Blunt Rochester
FLORIDA
Kathy Castor
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
Lois Frankel
Maxwell Frost
Darren Soto
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Frederica S. Wilson
GEORGIA
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr.
Lucy McBath
David Scott
Nikema Williams
HAWAII
Ed Case
Jill N. Tokuda
ILLINOIS
Sean Casten
Danny K. Davis
Bill Foster
Jesús G. “Chuy” García
Jonathan L. Jackson
Robin L. Kelly
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Mike Quigley
Delia C. Ramirez
Janice D. Schakowsky
Bradley Scott Schneider
Lauren Underwood
INDIANA
André Carson
KENTUCKY
Morgan McGarvey
LOUISIANA
Troy A. Carter
MAINE
Chellie Pingree
MARYLAND
Steny H. Hoyer
Glenn Ivey
Kweisi Mfume
Jamie Raskin
Dutch Ruppersberger
John P. Sarbanes
David J. Trone
MASSACHUSETTS
Jake Auchincloss
Katherine M. Clark
William R. Keating
James P. McGovern
Seth Moulton
Richard E. Neal
Ayanna Pressley
Lori Trahan
MICHIGAN
Debbie Dingell
Daniel T. Kildee
Haley M. Stevens
Shri Thanedar
Rashida Tlaib
MINNESOTA
Betty McCollum
Ilhan Omar
Dean Phillips
MISSISSIPPI
Bennie G. Thompson
MISSOURI
Cori Bush
Emanuel Cleaver
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ann M. Kuster
NEW JERSEY
Robert Menendez
Donald Norcross
Bill Pascrell, Jr.
Donald M. Payne, Jr.
Mikie Sherrill
Bonnie Watson Coleman
NEW MEXICO
Teresa Leger Fernandez
Melanie A. Stansbury
Gabe Vasquez
NEW YORK
Jamaal Bowman
Yvette D. Clarke
Adriano Espaillat
Daniel S. Goldman
Hakeem S. Jeffries
Gregory W. Meeks
Grace Meng
Joseph D. Morelle
Jerrold Nadler
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Patrick Ryan
Paul Tonko
Ritchie Torres
Nydia M. Velázquez
NORTH CAROLINA
Alma S. Adams
Valerie P. Foushee
Kathy E. Manning
Wiley Nickel
Deborah K. Ross
OHIO
Joyce Beatty
Shontel M. Brown
OREGON
Earl Blumenauer
Suzanne Bonamici
Val T. Hoyle
Andrea Salinas
PENNSYLVANIA
Brendan F. Boyle
Madeleine Dean
Dwight Evans
Chrissy Houlahan
Summer L. Lee
Mary Gay Scanlon
RHODE ISLAND
Gabe Amo
Seth Magaziner
SOUTH CAROLINA
James E. Clyburn
TENNESSEE
Steve Cohen
TEXAS
Greg Casar
Joaquin Castro
Jasmine Crockett
Lloyd Doggett
Veronica Escobar
Lizzie Fletcher
Sylvia R. Garcia
Al Green
Sheila Jackson Lee
Marc A. Veasey
VERMONT
Becca Balint
VIRGINIA
Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
Gerald E. Connolly
Jennifer L. McClellan
Robert C. “Bobby” Scott
Abigail Davis Spanberger
Jennifer Wexton
WASHINGTON
Suzan K. DelBene
Pramila Jayapal
Derek Kilmer
Rick Larsen
Adam Smith
Marilyn Strickland
WISCONSIN
Gwen Moore
Mark Pocan