Under the newly established Laeken Riley Act, 14 illegal immigrants, including suspected members of the Venezuelan tren, were the Aragua gang, removed from the streets last week by the federal law enforcement in Florida.
Video shared by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami, which cooperates with immigration and customs enforcement (Ice), shows that criminal aliens are arrested during a three -day operation. The arrested people are accused of crimes, including sexual attacks on a small and gang activity with tren the Aragua, HSI Miami said in a post on X.
“As part of his routine activities, American immigration and customs enforcement arrest alien beings who commit crimes and other persons who have violated the immigration laws of our nation,” an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. “All aliens contrary to US immigration legislation can be subject to arrest, detention and, if found by definitive order, removal from the United States, regardless of nationality.”
The arrests of the criminal aliens were a product of the Cloth Riley ActThe first bill of the 119th congress that President Donald Trump signed in the law at the end of January. The law was named after Riley, a 22-year-old nurse student in Georgia who was killed on 22 February 2024 by an illegal immigrant.
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Special agents with ICE performed surgery on criminal aliens in accordance with the Riley Act Cloth in Miami on March 5.
According to that law, ice can hold new categories illegal immigrants They are considered as risks for public safety that would not have been held by ICE before.
Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., Was the primary sponsor of the bill.
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Laken Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, was found dead on February 22, 2024 near a lake on campus. An illegal immigrant was convicted of her murder. (Laeken Riley/Facebook)
“After the Riley Act sheets in the 118th Congress had failed, I promised the Laeken Riley family that I would fight just as she did to ensure that we have passed on the Riley act sheets in the law, so that her name could live in the lives she saves,” Collins told Fox News Digital.
‘I couldn’t be happier President Trump Made the Laeken Riley Act the first bill that he signed in his second administration, so that it would not wait to get these dangerous criminals off the street and away from innocent Americans. ”
“Tren The Aragua -members have no place in our country, and I am glad that I could play my role in sending them back to where they came,” Collins said. “Criminals need to know: the days of rape and plunder of our country without consequences are over – Laeken Riley took care of it.”
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Ice judgment 32 illegal alien beings in Palm Beach County, Florida, Enforcement Action. (ICE)
The name of the law honors Riley, a nursing student at Augusta University who was murdered during a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia. Her murderer, Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Ibarra, was previously arrested in the US, but was never held by the federal immigration authorities. He was convicted of the murder of Riley in November and sentenced to life in prison.
Jose Ibarra was found guilty on 10 counts at the death of the Georgia Nursing Student Laeken Riley. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal Constitution via AP, Pool)
In the meantime, Aragua -train has recently caused major damage by the US
Although it had been on the radar of federal law enforcement in recent years, the group exploded in fame last year when a surveillance video showed various members who went the door of an apartment in Aurora, Colorado, viral. Gang members were accused of terrorizing residents and taking over the apartment complex.
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Tren The Aragua started about ten years ago as a prison gang in Venezuela, but has risen to an international criminal company that deals with murder and human and drug trafficking, which generate comparisons with MS-13, previously the most dominant Midden-American gang.
