PASSED: CORTEZ MASTO'S LEGISLATION TO HELP TRIBES APPREHEND VIOLENT CRIMINALS

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:

The Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senator Cortez Masto's (D-Nev.) bipartisan legislation to allow the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) to help Tribal law enforcement track down violent criminals and search for missing children. The Tribal Warrant Fairness Act (https://www.cortezmasto.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cortez-masto-mullin-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-help-tribes-apprehend-violent-criminals/) is part of Cortez Masto's yearslong push to increase public safety in Indian Country and end the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP). The bill now awaits a vote in the House of Representatives.

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