President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act today, a bill that requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to arrest, detain, and deport illegal-alien criminals. The bill also permits the states to sue the federal government if it fails to do so.
The bill received unanimous support from Republicans and cool support from Democrats. Just 81 Democratic senators and congressmen voted for the bill. The rest didn’t vote or voted to protect illegal-alien criminals from arrest and deportation.
Speaking before the murdered Riley’s family and other victims of illegal aliens, Trump announced that the most dangerous illegal-alien criminals will be sent to the American Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Bill
The bill became law today, less than a year after Jose Ibarra, a member of Venezuela’s murderous gang Tren de Aragua, murdered nursing student Riley in Athens, Georgia, near the campus of the University of Georgia. The Biden administration had caught and released Ibarra and his two thug brothers at the border.
The bill declares as inadmissible any illegal who
is charged with, is arrested for, is convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of any burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, or assault of a law enforcement officer offense, or any crime that results in death or serious bodily injury to another person.
The DHS secretary must detain the illegal-alien thug as well.
And again, the states can sue the federal government if it violates the law.
The U.S. House passed the bill two days after Trump took office by a 253-156 vote. All the nays were Democrats, including the usual illegal-alien criminal lobbyists. The Senate passed the bill 64-35 on Inauguration Day. All the nays were Democrats.
Among the patriotic senators were Connecticut’s Chris Murphy, who says that illegal aliens “are the people we care about most.”
Also attending the signings were the families of Kayla Hamilton, 21, and Jocelyn Nungaray, 12 — both murdered by illegals caught and released at the border — and Rachel Morin, 37. Morin and Hamilton were from Maryland, where Hamilton’s murderer was permitted to attend high school.
After detailing the waste, fraud, and abuse the new administration has stopped — including $50 million to buy condoms for the residents of the Gaza strip and $45 million for diversity training in Burma — Trump spoke about Riley.
Preventable Tragedy
He began:
Laken was attacked, viciously assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and murdered by an illegal alien gang member who was set loose into our country by the last Administration.
Thanking the Riley family for attending the signing, he said the bill “is a very important law. This is something that has brought Democrats and Republicans together. That’s not easy to do. Laken did it.”
Ibarra should have been deported in 2022. However, “under the cruel policies of the last Administration” he was instead “released into the United States, as were millions of other” criminals.
“This horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen,” Trump said:
The very government that was supposed to protect their daughters, instead opened our borders and transported the world’s most dangerous criminals straight into their communities. They came from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions from all over the world.
He continued:
They came here by plane and they were loaded onto buses and they were driven right up to our border and they drove right through the border and nobody even said a word to them, and in those buses and those cars and those trucks were some of the meanest criminals anywhere in the world.
Trump also mentioned the report from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that detailed the number of illegal-alien criminals who, as of July, roamed American streets: Almost 700,000, more than 13,000 of whom are murderers.
ICE released that data at the request of GOP Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas.
Going to Gitmo
Trump also discussed the squabble with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who turned away planes from the United States that carried Colombian illegal aliens. After Trump threatened to crush the nation with tariffs and visa restrictions, Petro thought better of it, and took the deportees.
“You know we may have tough talk from others, but it’s not going to mean anything. They’re going to take all of them back and they’re going to like it, too,” Trump said.
Then he announced where the most dangerous illegals would spend their time: at Guantanamo Bay Naval base.
“I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Trump said:
Most people don’t even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo.”
The signings today “bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in communities once and for all,” he said.
Trump called on Congress to provide “full funding for the complete and total restoration of our sovereign border, as well as financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens.”
He said Venezuela’s crime rate dropped 77 percent because it sent its gang members and other criminals to the United States.
