Atlanta – laws that were named in honor of a nursing student in Georgia murdered by an illegal immigrant, was the first law signed by President Donald Trump.
The Riley Act sheet obliges the federal immigration and customs authority to arrest, capture and deport illegal immigrants that commit non-violent crimes such as theft, burglary, theft or shop theft.
Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered last February, while he jogged on the campus of the University of Georgia. An illegal immigrant from Venezuela was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without probation. Jose Ibarra had previously been arrested for shoplifting, but was released from custody.
“These terrible atrocities should never have happened,” said Trump during a ceremony in the White House. “As President, I fight every day to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.”
Both democratic senators of Georgia, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, supported the draft law sponsored by Republicans as well as two of the five democratic representatives of the State Lucy McBath von Marietta and Sanford Bishop from Albany. All nine Republicans in the state's congress delegation also supported the measure.
Riley's parents and a sister took part in the Bill-Signing Ceremony on Wednesday, as did Georgia House speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington and Lt. Governor Burt Jones, who heads the Senate Senate.
Trump promised the campaign path last year to climb against illegal immigration and made the problem a core of his successful offer for a second, not consecutive term in the White House. Since he started in office last week, he has closed the southern border of the nation.
“Nobody is waiting to get in,” he said. “We have been working on that for a long time.”
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