Next week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) bill, Kate’s Law, will receive a vote on the Senate floor. Sen. Cruz first introduced Kate’s Law, or the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015, last July. The legislation is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who tragically died in the arms of her father on a San Francisco pier after being shot by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been deported from the United States five times. This bill would amend federal law to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for any illegal reentry offense.