WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed the first bill of his second term on Wednesday. This is a broad legal authority to grant the state attorney general a wide range of legal powers to challenge federal immigrants, such as measures to require immigration officials to detain immigrants who have been arrested or charged with property crimes. Act on the Act on the Powers.
“Today’s signature brings us one step closer to eradicating the tragedy of immigration crime in our community,” Trump said.
Immigration advocates and lawyers warned that the bill would help promote Trump’s promise to enact a massive deportation by demanding detention of immigrants charged with property crimes. ICE has funds Approximately 41,000 detention beds.
During the ceremony, Trump signed the order Wednesday, saying he would direct the Department of Defense and Homeland Security to prepare to hold up to 30,000 beds at the Immigration Detention Center in Guantanamo Bay.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo, detaining the worst crime-illegal foreigners that threaten the people of America,” Trump said. “Some of them are so bad that we don’t even trust them to hold them because we don’t want them back, we send them to Guantanamo. It’s difficult …It’s where you leave.”
From 1994 to 1996, the US government used Guantanamo Bay to detain Over 30,000 Cubans Run away due to political instability and economic downturn. In 2002, former President George W. Bush used the site to hold suspects of terrorism who could be detained and interrogated without detention following the September 11 attack.
DHS did not answer newsroom questions about the new detention center in Guantanamo Bay. The facility is usually used to detain asylum seekers on their way to the US, rather than moving people from within the country to naval bases already.
Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan He told reporters The operation of naval bases by US immigration and customs enforcement agencies.
“We’re just expanding our existing immigration centres,” Homan said.
Signed by the Laken Riley Act
Bill Trump, signed, is named after 22-year-old Georgia nursing student, Raken Riley. Laken Riley says he was murdered by a male immigration official, stayed in the country without permission and was previously charged with shoplifting.
“We will keep Laiken’s memory in our hearts forever. We will keep everyone’s hearts with what we do today,” Trump said. “Her name also lives forever in the laws of our country. This is a very important law.”
Riley’s mother, Allison Phillips, also signed it, thanking Trump for the bill.
“There’s no change to regain our valuable wages,” she said. “Our hope is that her life will save her.”
Trump criticised the Biden administration’s immigration policy and denounced Riley’s death.
“Under the cruel policies of the last administration, he is not deported as he should have been, he is with millions of other people, many of them very dangerous people. Released to the US as well, you see what we are doing, we (they) are getting hell from here,” Trump said.
Senate Republicans have also originally expanded the mandatory detention requirements for property crimes such as shoplifting and robbery to include attacks by law enforcement officials and physical harm to others.
Trump praised Alabama Sen. Katie Britt.
He also called on Congress to provide his administration with funds to deport the country.
“We need Congress to provide full funding for a full and full recovery of sovereign borders and financial support to remove a record number of illegal aliens.” Trump said.
ICE estimates that the cost of implementing the Laken Riley Act will be $26.9 billion in its first year. According to NPR. The ice budget for 2024 is About $9 billion.
Criticism of due process
The bill has gained bipartisan supportdespite concerns from immigration advocates and lawyers who warned of the measure, it gives the state attorney general the authority to question the immigration judge’s bond decision.
Furthermore, the bill does not have sculptures for immigrant children. This means they will be detained and not released on bonds. The immigration lawyer argued The bill aims to target people in the country without proper approval, but discretionary actions such as humanitarian parole and deferred actions for recipients of childhood arrivals. It aims to seduce immigrants with legal status.
Trump administration I gave it to the authorities last week Cancel humanitarian parole – discretionary status – for immigrants who have arrived in the United States within the past two years. That includes the roughly 1.5 million immigrants that the Biden administration has allowed the United States through various legal channels.
and Legal advocates this week said they were banned. It cut down the Department of Justice funding cuts, which provides legal services at detention centers and provides assistance to immigrants navigating immigration court cases.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday Also, the extension has been cancelled For temporary protection of approximately 600,000 Venezuelans.
Trump praised Noem for his work so far. Earlier this week, Noem was accompanied by the raid ice in New York City.
“I know that she’s probably not free because she’s a woman, but she’s tough,” Trump said of Noem.
Last updated at 12:34pm, February 4, 2025
