1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Laken Riley Act . 2. Findings; sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress finds that the Nation— (1) mourns the devastating loss of Laken Riley and other victims of the Biden administration’s open borders policies; (2) honors the life and memory of Laken Riley and other victims of the Biden administration’s open borders policies; and (3) denounces the open-borders policies of President Joe Biden, Border Czar Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and other Biden administration officials. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Biden administration should not have released Laken Riley’s alleged murderer into the United States; (2) the Biden administration should have arrested and detained Laken Riley’s alleged murderer after he was charged with crimes in New York, New York, and Athens, Georgia; (3) President Biden should publicly denounce his administration’s immigration policies that resulted in the murder of Laken Riley; and (4) President Biden should prevent another murder like that of Laken Riley by ending the catch-and-release of illegal aliens, increasing immigration enforcement, detaining and removing criminal aliens, reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, ending his abuse of parole authority, and securing the United States borders. 3. Detention of certain aliens who commit theft Section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1226(c) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)— (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking or ; (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the comma at the end and inserting , or ; and (C) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following: (E) (i) is inadmissible under paragraph (6)(A), (6)(C), or (7) of section 212(a), and (ii) is charged with, is arrested for, is convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of any burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting offense,