SEN. KATIE BRITT: Laken Riley Act our first step in ending era of open borders – here's what's next

When President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into instrumentality past Wednesday, it marked a caller opening for the United States – a caller Golden Age of America, arsenic President Trump enactment it successful his inaugural address. 

In signing what was the astir important portion of immigration-enforcement legislation to scope the Resolute Desk since 1996, President Trump signaled that the epoch of unfastened borders is over.

From present on, amerciable aliens arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, oregon shoplifting offenses, battle of a instrumentality enforcement officer, oregon immoderate transgression resulting successful decease oregon superior bodily wounded volition nary longer beryllium escaped to roam American streets. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) volition detain criminals earlier they tin reoffend oregon flee. And, astatine agelong last, authorities attorneys wide volition person lasting to writer national officials for nonaccomplishment to enforce our country’s borderline laws.

Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered by an amerciable migrant portion she was jogging astatine the University of Georgia successful Athens, Georgia, connected Feb. 22, 2024. (Laken Riley/Facebook)

Had the Laken Riley Act been successful effect during the Biden-Harris administration, Laken Riley’s slayer would not person had the accidental to instrumentality her life. Laken would inactive beryllium with us, shining her airy connected each and each idiosyncratic astir her. 

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I americium thankful for the enactment of her parent and stepfather, Allyson and John Phillips, successful our effort to guarantee nary different household has to endure an wholly preventable calamity similar this one, and I respect their faith, courageousness and spot successful the look of axenic heartbreak. It is 1 of the large privileges of my beingness that we were capable to travel unneurotic to grant Laken’s bequest and assistance support American families safe.

The Laken Riley Act addressed 1 of the astir important issues our state faces today: the fig of transgression amerciable aliens already wrong our state and freely roaming our streets. But, portion vital, the request for stronger interior migration enforcement is lone 1 facet of what ails America. We indispensable besides enactment to forestall criminals from entering the U.S. to statesman with.

That is wherefore I reintroduced the WALL Act.

It is agelong past clip to implicit the operation of a partition connected our confederate border. President Trump came into bureau successful 2017 with plans to physique the wall, and we person since seen the consequences of the willful obstruction that prevented the task from being finished: Illegal borderline crossings skyrocketed to grounds levels nether Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ administration. Now, much than ever, we request a obstruction preventing amerciable aliens from coming into our country.

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The WALL Act would decorativeness gathering one.

It would due the backing indispensable to implicit the partition and let President Trump to bash truthful without raising taxes connected U.S. citizens oregon expanding our nationalist indebtedness by a azygous cent. We would money the partition by fixing yet different contented successful our migration system: eliminating taxpayer-funded entitlements and taxation benefits for amerciable aliens.

Not lone would the WALL Act mean taxpayers halt having to foot the measure for amerciable aliens, but it would besides adjacent the loopholes allowing amerciable aliens to usage benefits intended for citizens and ineligible residents. Addressing different problem, the WALL Act would enforce monetary fines connected amerciable aliens and migrants who overstay their visas.

This measure means 2 things: Finishing the borderline partition and redeeming the American radical wealth portion we’re astatine it. In fact, the nonpartisan Joint Committee connected Taxation estimated successful 2018 that enacting the provisions successful the WALL Act would prevention $33 cardinal implicit 10 years. 

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As president of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, my archetypal precedence is ensuring the Trump medication has the backing required to transportation retired its mission, the detention abstraction it needs to get transgression amerciable aliens disconnected our streets, and the resources, personnel, and technologies indispensable truthful Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations tin bash their jobs safely and efficiently. 

That is what the American radical told america they wanted erstwhile they sent President Trump backmost to the White House and a Republican bulk to the Senate this past November. It is what our state needs and what our citizens deserve.

During the past 4 years, our authorities mislaid show of its cardinal duty: providing information for its citizens. But now, from the Oval Office to some chambers of Congress, the Republican Party is committed to getting our state backmost connected track.

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We volition support the promises we made to the American radical by securing our border, detaining and deporting transgression amerciable aliens, and restoring bid passim the United States, from the Pacific seashore to the shores of the Atlantic.

Our efforts began with the Laken Riley Act, but they bash not extremity there. We volition proceed to crook the volition of the radical into law, and we volition marque America harmless again.

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