U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville is one of the co-sponsors of a bill that would call for undocumented migrants to receive the death penalty if they are convicted of murder.

The Justice for American Victims of Illegal Aliens Act would modify existing federal law to add another aggravating factor for execution and codify an earlier executive order by President Donald Trump on his first day in office.

Tuberville was joined by his senate colleagues and co-sponsors John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tim Scott, (R-S.C.) and Steve Daines, (R-Mont.) at a news conference announcing the bill.

“It’s really sad that we’ve gotten to this point,” Tuberville said.

Tuberville claimed many of the estimated 10 million undocumented migrants in the U.S. are “murderers, rapists, terrorists, you name it.”

He cited the deaths of Laken Riley and Rachel Morin to make the case for the bill.

Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student, was murdered in February 2024.

Jose Antonio Ibarra was convicted last year of her killing. Sen. Katie Britt earlier authored a bill bearing Riley’s name that was signed into law by Trump earlier this year.

Morin was killed in August 2023 on a Maryland hiking trail by Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, a fugitive from El Salvador, who was convicted in April.

“They were murdered as a direct result of Democrat open border policies, case closed,” Tuberville said.

“It’s simple. If you’re in this country illegally, you murder an American citizen, you face the death penalty. We have to stop incentivizing crime in this country.”

“We will not allow our communities to be turned into hunting grounds for foreign national murderers,” Tuberville said.

“Republicans in Congress, we have to do our part, to make sure more American blood isn’t shed by criminals who shouldn’t be here in the first place.”