{"id":4689,"date":"2025-01-09T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-expected-to-advance-gop-immigration-bill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:22:08","slug":"senate-expected-to-advance-gop-immigration-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-expected-to-advance-gop-immigration-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate expected to advance GOP immigration bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate is expected to take a bipartisan vote Thursday afternoon advancing the Laken Riley Act, making it the first bill Senate Republicans debate under their new majority. The bill &mdash; which is named after a Georgia nursing student murdered last year and would mandate the detention of undocumented immigrants who are charged with theft or burglary&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/09\/congress\/senate-to-vote-on-laken-riley-act-00197306\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate is expected to take a bipartisan vote Thursday afternoon advancing the Laken Riley Act, making it the first bill Senate Republicans debate under their new majority. The bill &mdash; which is named after a Georgia nursing student murdered last year and would mandate the detention of undocumented immigrants who are charged with theft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}