February 21st, 2025 by WCBC Radio

The Laken Riley Act mandates the detention of illegal immigrants accused of theft-related crimes or assaults.  West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito voted in favor of the Act and sees that President Trump’s border control actions are already having an effect…

   

“I think it will make our country safer and it shows by the number of people who are coming across the border which has plunged from 11,000 a day to just to over 600 a day. This president means business and he is going to control our border. And I’m very much in support of that as I know West Virginians are.”