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The rare event that is a presidential funeral has made its way to Washington with the body of Jimmy Carter,

taken by horse-drawn Kaysan through the snowy streets of the nation's capital.

Members of the military escorting Carter's flag-draped casket to the Capitol Rotunda,

where the 39th president will lie in state this week.

Members of Congress, the Supreme Court justices, and the public will be able to honor

Carter there. Carter's body left the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta this morning, was flown

to Washington aboard a special plane. Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 last month. The former

state funeral will be held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral. The new Congress,

meanwhile, is moving ahead on immigration just days after being sworn in. NPR's Amanda Bastille

reports about House Passage of Immigration Bill. Forty-eight Democrats joined 216 Republicans in the House

in passing the Lake and Riley Act, which would require the detention of any unauthorized

migrant charged with theft or

burglary. The bill is named after a Georgia nursing student who was killed last year. A Venezuelan

man who had entered the U.S. illegally was convicted of her murder. Lake and Riley's death

became a rallying cry for Republicans criticizing the Biden administration's approach to border

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