Senate Republicans announced on March 21 a plan to push for the Laken Riley Act to be added to a $1.2 trillion government funding package that the upper chamber is expected to consider on March 22 to avert a shutdown.
Laken Riley was a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was abducted and killed on Feb. 22, allegedly by an illegal immigrant, despite that the suspect had been apprehended previously by law enforcement in multiple states for several offenses.
