House passes immigrant detention bill that would be Trump’s first law to sign

By STEPHEN GROVES

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House connected Wednesday gave last support to a measure that requires the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and convulsive crimes, marking the archetypal authorities that President Donald Trump tin motion arsenic Congress, with immoderate bipartisan support, swiftly moved successful enactment with his plans to crackdown connected amerciable immigration.

Passage of the Laken Riley Act, which was named aft a Georgia nursing student who was murdered past twelvemonth by a Venezuelan man, shows conscionable however sharply the governmental statement implicit migration has shifted to the close pursuing Trump’s predetermination victory. Immigration argumentation has often been 1 of the astir entrenched issues successful Congress, but a important faction of politically susceptible Democrats joined with Republicans to assistance the strict connection to transition connected a 263-156 ballot tally.

“For decades, it has been astir intolerable for our authorities to hold connected solutions for the problems astatine our borderline and wrong our country,” said Sen. Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican. She called the authorities “perhaps the astir important migration enforcement bill” to beryllium passed by Congress successful astir 3 decades.

Still, the measure would necessitate a monolithic ramp up successful U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s capabilities, but does not see immoderate caller funding.