[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 6 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S87]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            LAKEN RILEY ACT

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). The clerk will report the bill 
by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 5) to require the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the 
     United States with theft, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.


                            Amendment No. 8

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I call up Ernst amendment No. 8.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from South Dakota [Mr. Thune], for Ms. Ernst, 
     proposes an amendment numbered 8.

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask that the reading be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

(Purpose: To include crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury 
 to the list of offenses that, if committed by an inadmissible alien, 
                      require mandatory detention)

       Beginning on page 2, strike line 15 and all that follows 
     through page 3, line 2, and insert the following:
       ``(ii) is charged with, is arrested for, is convicted of, 
     admits having committed, or admits committing acts which 
     constitute the essential elements of any burglary, theft, 
     larceny, or shoplifting offense, or any crime that results in 
     death or serious bodily injury to another person,'';
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (4); and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
       ``(2) Definition.--For purposes of paragraph (1)(E), the 
     terms `burglary', `theft', `larceny', `shoplifting', and 
     `serious bodily injury' have the meanings given such terms in 
     the jurisdiction in which the acts occurred.

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