S. 5

In plain English

The Laken Riley Act requires DHS to detain certain non-U.S. citizens who are here unlawfully or lacked required entry documents. It applies if they are arrested for, charged with, convicted of, or admit to certain crimes; a conviction is not required. Those crimes include burglary, theft, shoplifting, assaulting a law enforcement officer, and crimes causing death or serious injury. The act also lets states sue the federal government over certain immigration enforcement decisions or failures that harm the state or its residents.

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Sponsor and status

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How South Carolina voted

On the Amendment · Senate roll call 6 · 2025-01-20 · Roll-call record ↗

Who lobbied

Lobbying reports name the bills a client worked on. They don't say which side anyone took.

48 reports from 26 clients reporting $5,360,351 in fees and expenses. Fees cover each report's whole lobbying effort, not just this bill.

Groupings are our label from each organization's name and industry, not its legal or tax status.

The connection table

Organizations that lobbied this bill, and money each gave South Carolina's delegates this cycle: its PAC's contributions (FEC) plus its lobbyists' reported contributions and event payments (LD‑203, group events excluded). Exact name matches only. An empty cell means no matching money was found. Under each name is that delegate’s final vote on the bill (passage or last substantive vote). Delegates who didn’t vote on it, for example because they weren’t serving, are grayed out and left out of the Total column.

None of the organizations that lobbied this bill gave money we could match to a South Carolina delegate.