Following the footsteps of other Republican-led states, Louisiana's senate voted this week to advance a bill that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people in the state who entered the U.S. illegally.
Under the recently proposed bill, it would become a crime to "illegally" enter or re-enter into the state. Illegal re-entry includes people who were previously "denied admission, excluded, deported or otherwise removed from the U.S."
