Washindton – President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the act of the first card of the second term, which would require immigration officials to arrest immigrants arrested or accused of property offenses, and grant broad legal law to the general prosecutors in order to question the federal immigration of law.
“Today’s signatures bring us closer to eliminating the plague of migrants’ crime in our communities once and for all,” said Trump.
Immigration supporters and lawyers warned that the Act would aid to fuel Trump’s promise to introduce mass deportations, requiring the detention of immigrants responsible for real estate crimes. ICE has funds About 41,000 detention beds.
During the ceremony, Trump said that he would also sign the directive on Wednesday to instruct the Department of Defense and the Internal Security Department to prepare for the migrant custody in the Gulf Guantanamo bay to keep up to 30,000 beds.
“In Guantanamo we have 30,000 beds to stop the worst criminals of illegal aliens threatening the American people,” said Trump. “Some of them are so bad that we do not even trust the countries that hold them because we do not want them to come back, so we will send them to Guantanamo. It’s difficult … a place where you can get out. “
In the years 1994–1996 the US government used the Ganantanamo bay to stop Over 30,000 Cubans Escaping because of political instability and deterioration of the economic situation. In 2002, former President George W. Bush used this place to maintain suspects of terrorism who could be detained and questioned without restrictions after the attacks of September 11.
DHS did not answer Newsroom’s questions about the fresh detention center in the Ganantanamo bay. The facility was usually used to stop people applying for asylum on the way to the United States, and not to transfer people already in the country to the sea base.
Trump border charm Tom Homan he told journalists that American immigration and customs enforcement would launch a sea base.
“We will simply develop the existing center of migrants,” said Homan.
Laken Riley Act was signed
The signed Bill Trump was named after a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia, Laken Riley, who was murdered by a man of immigration officials, claiming that he was in this country without authorization and was previously accused of theft in stores.
“We will keep Lake’s memory in our hearts forever, the hearts of everyone with today’s action,” said Trump. “Her name will also live in law in the law of our country and this is a very important law.”
Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, was also signing and thanked Trump for the bill.
“There is no change that will ever restore our precious Laken,” she said. “We hope her life saves her life.”
Trump criticized the immigration policy of Biden administration and blamed her for Riley’s death.
“According to the cruel policy of the last administration, instead of deporting as it should, he was released to the United States, like millions of other people, many of them very threatening people, and you see what we do, we pull out (their) – said Trump.
Republicans of the Senate also extended the obligatory requirements for detention originally regarding real estate crime, such as shopping theft or burglary, an assault of law enforcement officer and harm of another person’s body.
Trump praised Alabama GOP Senator Katie Britt for the pastoralism of the law in the upper chamber.
He also called for Congress to provide his financing administration for deportation.
“We need a congress to ensure full financing of full and complete restoration of our sovereign boundaries, as well as financial support to remove the record number of illegal aliens,” said Trump.
ICE estimated that the cost of enforcing the Lakene Riley Act would be $ 26.9 billion in the first year, According to NPR. ICE budget for the 2024 financial year is About $ 9 billion.
Criticism of the appropriate process
The Act has gained double -sided supportDespite the fears of immigration supporters and lawyers who warned that the measure would cause immigrants to determine that the measures would be exposed to the competent procedural rights and gave the general prosecutors the authority to challenge the decision of immigration judges.
In addition, there is no immigrants in the bill, which means that they can be stopped and not released into bonds. Immigration lawyers argued That, although the bill is aimed at attacking people in the country without the right permission, would sit down some immigrants with legal status, such as humanitarian conditional dismissal, and even postponed actions for recipients of newcomers to children, colloquially called dreamers.
Trump administration Last week, he gave immigration officials the authority To cancel a humanitarian conditional exemption – discretionary status – for immigrants who have come to the USA in the last two years. This would include about 1.5 million immigrants, which Biden administration let in the US through various legal paths.
AND Legal supporters this week said they were forbidden from the provision of legal services in detection centers and limiting the financing of the Department of Justice, which provided assistance to immigrants moving with immigration proceedings.
Secretary of DHS Kristi Noem on Tuesday He also withdrew the extension for transient security for about 600,000 Venezuelans.
Trump praised Noem for her work so far. Earlier this week, Noam was in New York, accompanied Ice during raids.
“I know that this is probably not free because she is a woman, but she is tough,” said Trump about Noem.
Last updated 13:34, February 4, 2025
