{"id":2242015,"date":"2024-05-10T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jon-tester-is-co-sponsoring-the-laken-riley-act-after-he-voted-against-it\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:55:02","slug":"jon-tester-is-co-sponsoring-the-laken-riley-act-after-he-voted-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jon-tester-is-co-sponsoring-the-laken-riley-act-after-he-voted-against-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Tester is now supporting the Laken Riley Act, previously opposing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjon-tester-is-co-sponsoring-the-laken-riley-act-after-he-voted-against-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2242015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Jon\u2062 Tester of Montana, facing reelection, has shifted his stance on immigration to counter electoral vulnerabilities. Tester recently endorsed the Laken Riley Act, advocating for the expulsion \u2063of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrants-guilty-of-dui-assault-will-not-be-deported-under-biden-plan\/\" title=\"Illegal Immigrants Guilty of DUI, Assault Will Not Be Deported Under Biden Plan\">illegal immigrants guilty<\/a> of\u2063 theft-related offenses. The bill, named\u2064 after Laken Riley,\u2062 aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-associate-attorney-common-nominee-really-wants-to-eliminate-school-cops\/\" title=\"Biden Associate Attorney Common Nominee REALLY WANTS TO Eliminate School COPS\">enhance public safety<\/a> by deporting criminal illegal immigrants. Your summary effectively captures Senator Jon Tester&#8217;s updated \u2063position \u2063on immigration, his support for the Laken Riley Act, and the bill&#8217;s objective of deporting\u200c criminal illegal immigrants to bolster public safety. Well done!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s election season for Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jon-tester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jon Tester<\/a> (D-MT), who is flip-flopping on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>immigration<\/a> policy in a desperate attempt to protect one of his most significant electoral liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Tester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tester.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/tester-backs-laken-riley-act-to-hold-criminals-accountable-and-keep-montana-safe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>signed on<\/a> as a co-sponsor for the Laken Riley Act, a bill that, if enacted, would require the detention and deportation of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"illegal immigrants\">illegal immigrants<\/a> who commit the crimes of theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is named for Laken Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia who was killed by an illegal immigrant who had committed several crimes in the weeks and months prior.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsorship of the bill is an abrupt about-face for Tester. He had <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/4654679-tester-cosponsor-laken-riley-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>previously opposed<\/a> the bill when it was offered as an amendment to an appropriations bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter hearing from law enforcement officers across Montana, I\u2019m backing the Laken Riley Act to make sure that individuals who enter our country and commit a crime are held accountable so that no Montana family has to worry about the safety of their loved ones,\u201d Tester said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>What is unspoken in Tester\u2019s statement is that he is a Democrat who is up for reelection in a state that is overwhelmingly Republican and where the lax approach to immigration by the Democratic Party has become a major electoral liability.<\/p>\n<p>In any other legislative year, Tester would have never signed onto the bill, just as he voted against it when it was offered as an amendment to a must-pass bill. As long as Democrats control the Senate, the Laken Riley Act will never become law, and Tester knows this.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the safe assurance that the bill will never become law, since his party controls the Senate and the White House, Tester is engaging in nothing more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-says-arkansas-wont-comply-with-federal-transgender-student-protections\/\" title=\"Sarah Huckabee Sanders states Arkansas will not adhere to federal transgender student protections\">election-year pandering<\/a>, and his track record shows it. In 2023, he <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/538\/member-congress-voted-biden-2023\/story?id=106718543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>voted<\/a> with President Joe Biden 94% of the time, hardly the mark of a centrist politician.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Montana can do better than this political chameleon who abruptly changes his positions when election season rolls around. This November, they\u2019ll have a chance to send Tester into a forced retirement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heat of the election season, Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is changing his stance on immigration to address a key electoral weakness. Recently, Tester joined as a co-sponsor for the Laken Riley Act, advocating for the mandatory detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2934,"featured_media":2242016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24114773445832-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24114773445832-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}