The House of Representatives is poised to vote on the Laken Riley Act on Tuesday after it easily passed last year.

The House will vote at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act as its first piece of legislation of the 119th Congress. Reintroduced by Georgia Rep. Mike Collins, a Republican, the legislation pins Laken Riley's death on the Biden administration's open-border policies and grants power to attorneys general to sue the federal government if they can show their states are being harmed over failure to implement national immigration policies.

The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on the Laken Riley Act, the first bill of the 119th Congress, on Tuesday (January 7). Named after Laken Riley, a nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant,

Republicans are stepping on the gas and renewing bills Democrats ignored in the last Congress, the first of which being the Laken Riley Act.