The House on Tuesday passed its first bill of the new Congress — the Laken Riley Act, a strict border measure named for the 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered last year by an illegal immigrant, NBC News has reported.
The 264-159 vote puts pressure on Senate Democrats to back the legislation when the GOP-led Senate brings it to the floor for a vote on Friday, what would have been Riley’s 23rd birthday.
The legislation passed the House last year but not the Senate.
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