WASHINGTON — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is pushing to make it easier to designate noncitizens as potential flight risks or dangers to the community in order to detain and arrest those who commit crimes as they await trial.

Lee introduced the Flight Risk Reduction Act on Wednesday, pushing to include noncitizens and unlawful permanent residents to the list of persons eligible for consideration “as serious flight risks for the purposes of detention.” The bill comes after a rideshare driver was arrested in Salt Lake County on Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting a passenger inside his vehicle.

“Criminal suspects who are foreign citizens — especially illegal aliens — should automatically be considered greater flight risks, because they have greater means and incentive to flee to other count

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