This story was updated on Sunday, Jan. 12 at 2:52 p.m.
The U.S. Senate will vote on the Laken Riley Act on Monday with support from at least one Georgia Democrat.
The act would require the Department of Homeland Security to detain undocumented immigrants for robbery, shoplifting or burglary at the point of arrest, and allow state attorneys general to sue the federal government for failing to enforce immigration law.
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