Laken Riley Act

Expands mandatory immigration detention. It amends Section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act so that Homeland Security must detain aliens who are inadmissible for lacking valid entry documents or for fraud and who are charged with, arrested for, convicted of, or admit to burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, assault of a law enforcement officer, or any crime resulting in death or serious bodily injury (Section 2). Detention is triggered by a charge or arrest, not a conviction, and Homeland Security must issue a detainer and take custody. The bill also grants a state attorney general standing to sue Homeland Security, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of State over failures to detain, remove, grant bond or parole, or continue withholding visas, and to seek injunctive relief; a state counts as harmed if it or its residents suffer harm including financial harm in excess of $100 (Section 3). It shifts parole authority under Section 212(d)(5) from the Attorney General to the Secretary of Homeland Security and exempts these new state actions from the existing statutory bar on class-wide injunctions (Section 3).

At least 29 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 50 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 28 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

3 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its House companion, HR 29, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Casa, Inc.; Act for America; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL); Federation for American Immigration Reform; Network. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 24 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.