The Laken Riley Act would require federal authorities to detain illegal immigrants charged, arrested, or convicted of theft-related crimes, assaulting police officers, and inflicting serious bodily injury until deportation.

It narrowly passed 61-35, teeing up its final passage with a simple majority vote in the Senate on Monday, when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president, and kick-starting his illegal immigration crackdown.

The House, which approved the legislation last week, will need to repass the measure because it was amended in the Senate to cover assaulted police officers and other violent crimes.

“Some of our Democrat colleagues have spent the week searching for a reason, any reason, to justify voting against this bill,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said. “For starters, we’ve heard that this bill would cover too many illegal immigrants. The admission that there are too many individuals on our streets who have committed a crime after coming into the country illegally is an argument for this bill, not against it.”

Despite clearing an earlier filibuster with broad bipartisan support, including from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), most Democrats rejected the bill over a lack of amendments. They sought to address concerns over due process, exempt minors and Dreamers, and roll back a provision that empowers state attorneys general to bring lawsuits more easily against the federal government over its handling of illegal immigration.

“We Democrats want to see our broken immigration system fixed,” Schumer said. “While I do not support this particular bill, I stand ready to work with both sides to pass smart, effective, tough, and commonsense legislation to secure our borders and reform our immigration system.”

The act was named after the 22-year-old nursing student killed last year while jogging at the University of Georgia by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who was previously arrested but released.

Two Democrats, Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), were co-sponsors of the measure that was led by Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL).

“[Laken Riley] had hopes and dreams to strive for over the course of her life that will never have an opportunity to become a reality,” Britt said. “And that is because of the Biden-Harris open-border policies.”

Initial estimates from Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed the bill would cost more than $3 billion and require at least 60,000 detention beds to implement, prompting additional calls for funding from the agency housed under the Department of Homeland Security. ICE has since ratcheted up its warnings in a new memo, saying those costs could be nearly $27 billion and require more than 100,000 detention beds.

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Republicans, who are eyeing government spending cuts under the second Trump administration, say they are ready and willing to allocate the money.

“Once again, this is not an argument against the bill. It’s an argument for giving ICE more resources and for quickly deporting criminals,” Thune said. “These arguments say a lot more about Democrats’ unwillingness to crack down on illegal immigration than they say about this bill.”