Donald Trump signs his first legislation into law – named in memory of a murdered nursing student

US President, Donald Trump signs the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.

It mandates the detention and potential deportation of people in the US illegally who are accused of theft and violent crimes before they’ve actually been convicted.

The measure swiftly passed the Republican-controlled Congress with some Democratic support, despite immigrants’ rights advocates decrying it as extreme enough to possibly trigger mass roundups of people for offenses as minor as shoplifting

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