The Senate on Wednesday adopted the first amendment to the Laken Riley Act, as Republicans push for a legislative win to open the new Congress.

The legislation in its current form would mandate federal detention of immigrants without legal status accused of theft, burglary and other related crimes.

Senators on Wednesday voted 70-25 for an amendment proposed by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) that would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain any undocumented migrant accused of assault on a law enforcement officer. Twenty Democrats voted with every Republican that was present.

Riley, the Georgia college student for whom the legislation is named, was killed in February by a Venezuelan migrant who had been arrested for shoplifting prior to the attack and, subsequently, released on parole.

Sens. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.),........

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