The bill, which has divided Democrats, would require law enforcement to detain noncitizens who commit primarily theft-related crimes.
The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, handing an early legislative win to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans,
Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.
As it did weeks ago, the bill received unanimous support from Arizona's House Republicans. Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., also voted in favor of the measure, as Arizona's Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego did previously.
Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants charged with crimes, to President Trump’s desk.
Whether the policies are good or bad, some of President Donald Trump's executive orders exceed his constitutional authority.
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has for years sought federal recognition, and President Donald Trump is pushing for them to have it.
President Trump isn’t taking “no” for an answer on acquiring Greenland. Although the self-governing territory and its colonial authority, Denmark, insist the island isn’t for sale, Republicans in Congress are backing the plan to expand America’s boundaries northward.
It’s unclear whether the Trump administration will devote much effort to enforcing the registration requirement.
A group of congressional republicans introduced a bill on Thursday that they said would codify President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order.
The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.