President Trump signed Riley Act on Wednesday and marked his first legislative victory since he had returned to the White House during his campaign in 2024 after he had campaigned for immigration and border.
The bill passed the house Last week in a 263-156 coordination with 46 Democrats, which they support afterwards Senate approved the measure 64-35 in a two-party vote.
“This is a very important law. Democrats and Republicans brought this together. This is nothing that is easy to do – sheets did it. Sheets did it. America will never forget the LAKEN Hope Riley, ”said Trump in the legislation and called it“ a pioneering law ”that can“ save innocent, innocent American life ”.
The legislation requires the detention of a broad swath of migrants without legal status, including those who can enter the United States to find asylum if theft, burglary or shop theft has been accused of.
Some Democrats were present in the White House to sign the legislation, including Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.), The Sponsored the legislation together in the upper chamber.
Trump thanked the Republicans for the vote for the draft law and the Democrats who voted on party borders and warned that those who have not voted “are sorry”.
The President aimed at migrants who committed crimes as one of his most crucial campaign problems who arrived among the voters who wanted to act against immigration.
The fresh law is named after the nursing student sheet Riley in Georgia, which was killed by a Venezuelan migrant who was arrested before the attack for shop theft after he was directed to the country.
Riley’s parents and sister were also at the event, and her mother spoke before signing the bill and called Trump “a man of his word”.
“Sticks was a brilliant and beautiful 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia,” said Trump. “She was respected by everyone, even her teachers.”
He said her family had “a miserable time” after Riley was murdered during a jogg on the University of Georgia. Trump said the Venezuelan migrant who killed her
He also referred to the recent deportations that have taken place since his office, and added: “We’ll get them out of the hell here.”
“As President, I fight every day to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again. We don’t want this to happen, ”he said.
He found that the law also gives the governments the ability to sue the federal government for immediate relief in relation to the future in order to maintain future administration, to enforce the immigration laws, and argued that this was “for four long years” as part of the alumni President Biden.
Cabinet members, including the finance minister Scott Bessent and the secretary of Heimatschutz, Kristi NoEM, were also in the audience for signing the law. The families of other Americans who were killed by people who have recently entered the United States in recent years were present.
“Many of the angel families here were today cheated by the last government and with their heartless and stupid and really very, very arrogant and very, very stupid politics, guidelines that are not really credible when talking about common sense,” said Trump “.
During the signing of the law, Trump announced Prepare Guantánamo Bay “The worst criminal illegal foreigners arrest the American people.”
Critics have questioned themselves with a legal determination that a person had to stick to a person after being charged because of a crime and not after they were condemned. The legislators of House GOP cleared the legislation for the first time in March, less than a month after Riley was killed, but the Democrats checked the Senate at that time.
When the house approved the legislation at the beginning of this year, the Republican -controlled Senate took a version of the law on migrants without legal status due to crimes causing death or sedate bodily harm.
Trump often spoke about Riley’s case on the campaign path and her death became a flash point in politics During the election cycle, the Republicans accuse the immigration efforts of the bidges. When a judge in Georgia in November Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela, accused of killing Riley, Trump weighed one And called the judgment “justice”.
“The illegally that our beloved sheet Riley was guilty in all cases because of his terrible crimes,” said the president, who won the election days earlier.
Trump kept his promises on the campaign path for migrants, especially those who committed crimes in the United States A flood of executive orders On the day one of his return to the White House.
The signing of the Riley Laken Act is part of Trump’s early immigration movements. His executive commands have carried out a break for refugee registrations, restored a program that combines the local law enforcement authorities with immigration agents, and declared a national emergency, which made the path for the stronger apply of military in the south of the southern border and to build up resources Border wall.
He also signed an order that considers migration to be an “invasion” and tries to end asylum processing by considering migrants to be public health and national security threat.
Updated at 3:01 p.m. EST
