Trump Hope Legislative Victory with Lake Riley Act Signed in the Law | American immigration

Donald Trump signed the Riley Act on Wednesday and marked the first legislative victory for his administration’s hardline immigration agenda since joining earlier this month.

The legislation requires detention of undocumented immigrants charged with theft-related crimes, and generally allows state lawyers to sue the federal government if they believe their states had been damaged by its lack of enforcement of immigration laws.

Lake Riley Act is named after a 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia, murdered in 2023 by Jose Ibarra, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela. Last November, iBarra was found guilty and was sentenced to life without triallessness.

Trump talks about the legislation during his meeting with house Republicans at his Miami Golf Club this week, Trump said: “Having a bill of such a meaning named after her is a great tribute.”

“This shows the potential for further enforcement bills that will help us crack down on criminal aliens and completely restore the rule of law in our country,” he added.

Attorneys for immigration rights have warned against legislation with Sarah Mehta, Senior Border Political Advisor at American Civil Liberties Union, saying: “This is an extreme and reactive bill that will approve the greatest expansion of mandatory detention we have seen in decades, swept in children, dreamers, parents of American citizen children and other long -time members of their communities that even (even (immigration and customs enforcement) thinks should not be detained.

Mehta also pointed out that this “legislation offers no solutions to improve our immigration system”.

Similarly, Mari Urbina, CEO of the Progressive Group, who is outerly gifted, told The Guardian: “To reinforce the Republicans’ anti-immigrant messages and hand out them political victories without battle is not a plan … Immigration policy is a message playground for Republicans , who use immigrants as scapegoats to expand their power, but never offer real solutions and Democrats should not play. “

Since joining earlier this month, Trump has signed a flurry of anti-immigration orders, including an end to Birthright Citizenship-AS. A US Judge Temporary Blocked-Pension of Refugee Records and an order that declared migration a “invasion”.