The Republican-majority House of Representatives, by a vote of 263-156, passed and sent to Trump for signing into law the Laken Riley Act. It is expected to be the first of several steps by Republicans this year to tighten border security and further slow the flow of migrants into the United States.
The bill is named after a college student murdered in the state of Georgia by a man from Venezuela who was living in the U.S. illegally and who had a prior record of shoplifting. He is now serving a life sentence in prison.
Trump won November’s presidential election after making immigration a top issue during his campaign, emboldening Republicans to pursue his get-tough-on-immigrants agenda.
“The American people want us to do something about the border and I think we’d be hard-pressed to not say that we have to deport criminals,“ Representative Tom Suozzi, a moderate Democrat who voted for the bill, told Reuters.
Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the caucus’s most liberal members, on Wednesday called it “disheartening” that so many Democrats supported the bill.
“Democrats have not changed on this issue,“ Aguilar said in response to a question by Reuters. “We will continue to talk about Dreamers and farm workers” and those immigrants who have a legal status in the United States, he added. Dreamers refers to immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children.
Nearly a year ago, a similar bill passed the House with the support of 37 Democrats, but went nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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