President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, yesterday, January 29th, giving federal authorities broader power to deport immigrants in the U. S. illegally, who have been accused of crimes. The bipartisan act, the first piece of legislation approved during Trump’s second term, was named for Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was slain last year by a Venezuelan man in the U. S. illegally. Attacks by thoes in the country illegally have increase the past few years, and have hit close to home, with an attack on a woman walking on the Prairie Spirit Trail near Garnett by a man from Mexico this past October. The act was co-sponsored by representative Derek Schmidt of Kansas.
President Trump has promised to drastically increase deportations, but he also said at the signing that some of the people being sent back to their home countries couldn’t be counted on to stay there. He announced that the worst and most dangerous of the criminals were going to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba.
