I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7511 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 1, 2024 
Mr. COLLINS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Laken Riley Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that the Nation— 
(1) mourns the devastating loss of Laken Riley 
and other victims of the Biden administration’s open 
borders policies; 
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(2) honors the life and memory of Laken Riley 
and other victims of the Biden administration’s open 
borders policies; and 
(3) denounces the open-borders policies of 
President Joe Biden, ‘‘Border Czar’’ Vice President 
Kamala Harris, Secretary of Homeland Security 
Alejandro Mayorkas, and other Biden administration 
officials. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the Biden administration should not have 
released Laken Riley’s alleged murderer into the 
United States; 
(2) the Biden administration should have ar-
rested and detained Laken Riley’s alleged murderer 
after he was charged with crimes in New York, New 
York, and Athens, Georgia; 
(3) President Biden should publicly denounce 
his administration’s immigration policies that re-
sulted in the murder of Laken Riley; and 
(4) President Biden should prevent another 
murder like that of Laken Riley by ending the catch- 
and-release of illegal aliens, increasing immigration 
enforcement, detaining and removing criminal aliens, 
reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, ending his 
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abuse of parole authority, and securing the United 
States borders. 
SEC. 3. DETENTION OF CERTAIN ALIENS WHO COMMIT 
THEFT. 
Section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1226(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘or’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the 
comma at the end and inserting ‘‘, or’’; and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (D) 
the following: 
‘‘(E)(i) is inadmissible under paragraph 
(6)(A), (6)(C), or (7) of section 212(a), and 
‘‘(ii) is charged with, is arrested for, is 
convicted of, admits having committed, or ad-
mits committing acts which constitute the es-
sential elements of any burglary, theft, larceny, 
or shoplifting offense,’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (4); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—For purposes of paragraph 
(1)(E), the terms ‘burglary’, ‘theft’, ‘larceny’, and 
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‘shoplifting’ have the meaning given such terms in 
the jurisdiction where the acts occurred. 
‘‘(3) DETAINER.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall issue a detainer for an alien described 
in paragraph (1)(E) and, if the alien is not other-
wise detained by Federal, State, or local officials, 
shall effectively and expeditiously take custody of the 
alien.’’. 
SEC. 4. ENFORCEMENT BY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF A 
STATE. 
(a) INSPECTION OF APPLICANTS FOR ADMISSION.— 
Section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1225(b)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) ENFORCEMENT
BY
ATTORNEY
GENERAL 
OF A STATE.—The attorney general of a State, or 
other authorized State officer, alleging a violation of 
the detention and removal requirements under para-
graphs (1) or (2) that harms such State or its resi-
dents shall have standing to bring an action against 
the Secretary of Homeland Security on behalf of 
such State or the residents of such State in an ap-
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