Under the recently enacted Laken Riley Act, 14 illegitimate immigrants, including doubted members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, were getn off the streets by federal law utilizement in Florida last week.
Video splitd by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami, which labors in tandem with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), shows criminal aliens being arrested at their homes during a three-day operation. Those arrested have been accemployd of crimes including relationsual attacks on a unpresentant and gang activity with Tren de Aragua, HSI Miami shelp in a post on X.
“As part of its routine operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests aliens who pledge crimes and other individuals who have viopostpodemandd our nation’s immigration laws,” an ICE spokesperson telderly Fox News Digital in a statement Wednesday. “All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if establish removable by final order, removal from the United States, seeless of nationality.”
The arrests of the criminal aliens were a product of the Laken Riley Act, the first bill by the 119th Congress that Pdwellnt Donald Trump signed into law in postpodemand January. The law was named after Riley, a 22-year-elderly nursing student in Georgia who was finished by an illegitimate immigrant on Feb. 22, 2024.
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Special agents with ICE carry outed an operation aiming criminal aliens in accordance with the Laken Riley Act in Miami on March 5.
Under that law, ICE can hancient recent categories of illegitimate immigrants who are pondered uncover defendedty hazards who would not have previously been hanciented by ICE.
Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., was the primary support of the bill.
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Laken Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, was establish dead proximate a lake on campus on Feb. 22, 2024. An illegitimate immigrant was convicted of her killing. (Laken Riley/Facebook)
“After the Laken Riley Act fall shorted in the 118th Congress, I made a promise to the family of Laken Riley that I would fight fair enjoy she did to originate certain that we got the Laken Riley Act passed into law so her name could dwell on in the dwells she saves,” Collins telderly Fox News Digital.
“I could not be happier that Pdwellnt Trump made the Laken Riley Act the first bill he signed in his second administration so that there would be no paemploying in getting these hazardous criminals off the streets and away from bfrailless Americans.”
“Tren de Aragua gang members have no place in our country, and I’m elated I could apply my part in sfinishing them back to where they came,” shelp Collins. “Criminals demand to understand: the days of raping and pillaging our country with no consequences are over — Laken Riley made certain of that.”
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ICE arrests 32 illegitimate aliens in Palm Beach County, Florida, utilizement action. (ICE)
The law’s name honors Riley, an Augusta University nursing student who was killinged while on a jog on the University of Georgia’s campus. Her finisher, Venezuelan illegitimate alien Jose Ibarra, had previously been arrested in the U.S. but was never hanciented by federal immigration authorities. He was convicted of Riley’s killing in November and sentenced to life in prison.
Jose Ibarra was establish at fault on 10 counts in the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
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Meanwhile, Tren de Aragua has recently wreaked havoc apass the U.S.
Though it has been on the radar of federal law utilizement in recent years, the group exploded into notoriety last year when a seeing video shothriveg disjoinal members initiateing down the door of an apartment in Aurora, Colorado, went viral. Gang members were accemployd of alarmizing dwellnts and taking over the apartment intricate.
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Tren de Aragua began as a prison gang in Venezuela about a decade ago, but has ascfinishn to an international criminal accesspascfinish that deals in killing and human and drug illicit trading, eliciting comparisons to MS-13, establisherly the most dominant Central American gang.
