Thursday, January 9, 2025

Not good

Fetterman and at least 7 other Democratic Senators are reportedly planning to vote for the Laken Riley Act, which will allow ICE to detain and later deport migrants with pending asylum and citizenship claims. That would give Republicans enough votes to overcome the filibuster.

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Democrats want to require that someone actually be found guilty first, while the Republican bill simply states that detention can be ordered if they are arrested based on a police officer’s probable cause. It is certainly understandable that they would want that language changed, but it does not appear that is likely to happen based on the number of Senate Dems who have already pledged to vote for it as is.

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The bill currently states that people can be put in detention if they are “charged with, arrested for, convicted of, or admits to committing acts which constitute burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.”

  Meidas Touch
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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