President Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law. The measure allows authorities to detain illegal aliens accused of theft, burglary or shoplifting, even if those aliens have applied for asylum. It also gives states the legal standing to sue the federal government for not enforcing immigration laws.
The bill passed was named after Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student who was murdered by an illegal alien from Venezuela. Prior to the murder, he had been arrested for crimes and then released.
The Laken Riley Act passed by a margin of 263-156 in the House and 64-35 in the Senate. It was the president’s first legislative victory, and support from some Democrats suggests that their party may be shifting, at least to some degree, toward support for immigration law enforcement. The president called it “a landmark law” designed to save “innocent American lives.”
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