
By a whopping 84-9 margin, the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday voted to advance the Laken Riley Act, an immigration enforcement bill named after a college student killed last year by a man who had crossed the southern border illegally. The bill will still need to undergo proposed amendments and proceed to a final vote, but the swell of support from the minority party to move it forward represents an about-face from Senate Democrats. The support for the first bill of the new Congress also raises the question of why the...