The House voted on an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, two weeks after it initially passed the bill.

Iowa’s U.S. Senators voted in support of the Laken Riley Act on Monday, the start of a crackdown on illegal immigration just hours after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The bill, which passed 64 to 35 with 12 Democrats in support,

A crucial faction of 46 politically vulnerable Democrats joined with Republicans to lift the strict proposal to passage on a 263-156 vote tally.

The US Congress has passed a bill requiring undocumented immigrants who are arrested for theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial. The bill, named after Laken Riley - a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by a Venezuelan man - passed the House of Representatives a day after it was approved by the Senate.

The Laken Riley Act, aimed at clamping down on people in the U.S. illegally who commit nonviolent crimes like theft, is expected to be the first bill President Donald Trump signs into law.