Will There Be a Laken Riley Act Christmas Tree?

The Laken Riley Act passed the House last Tuesday with all Republican and 48 Democratic votes. The bill avoided a filibuster in the Senate on Friday by an overwhelming vote to move forward to debate, with only nine Democrats voting no.

Great, right?

Right?

Maybe.

The bill would expand the list of crimes for which illegal aliens must be detained to include theft (read: shoplifting), and it would give state attorneys general standing to sue to stop illegal releases of aliens by the federal government, of which we’ve seen so much over the past four years.

But the Senate vote to proceed to debate didn’t pass with 33 Democratic votes because all 33 have seen the light. Rather, they want to try to hang amendments on it to turn it into a Christmas tree, as they say.

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[Read the rest at National Review.]