A new law, Laken Riley Act, draws everyone’s attention on the immigration policy. The House has passed a bill about immigrant detention, which could be President Trump’s first law to sign. The bill is named after a 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia, Riley, who was killed last year by a man from Venezuela. Riley was found dead in February 2024, after going for a morning run on the University of Georgia campus. The man who killed her had been arrested twice before in New York and Georgia but was released before his trial.
The bill is now on President Trump's desk, waiting for his signature to become a effective law.
The Act requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain immigrants migrants if they are charged with certain criminal offences, including theft, shoplifting, burglary, assault against law enforcement or any crimes that result in death "or serious bodily injury of another person. It also empowers the attorneys general of states to sue the federal government if their residents feel they have been harmed by national immigration policies.
The Bill did not trigger a big controversy between Republic Party and Democracy Party. A crucial faction of 46 politically vulnerable Democrats joined with Republicans to lift the strict proposal to passage on a 263-156 vote totally.
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