More than 300 migrants were arrested the day after Trump’s inauguration

Over the past 24 hours, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made arrests 308 migrants who were in the country illegally after Trump’s first day in office, as reported by the new Donald Trump administration’s head of immigration policy, Tom Homan.

“ICE is doing its job,” Homan said in an interview with the Fox News television network, explaining that agents have a “target sheet” of illegal immigrants with criminal records whom they want to arrest and deport.

The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill on the detention of undocumented migrants commit non-violent crimes, which is a first legislative victory that the new head of the White House, Donald Trump, will have to adopt after being inaugurated earlier this week. The bill, called the Laken Riley Act, is named after the 22-year-old Georgia girl who was murdered last year. by an undocumented migrant, provides that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “takes into custody and detains undocumented immigrants who are in the United States illegally or without legal status and who are charged, arrested, convicted, or have admitted to certain crimes, including theft , robbery or burglary, reports the American television channel CNN.

The measure, authored by Republican Georgia Congressman Mike Collins, passed by a vote of 263 in favor, including support from 46 Democrats, reflecting divisions within the party now in opposition.

The bill also includes a provision that authorizes federal prosecutors to “sue in federal court over decisions by federal officials, including immigration judges, to release certain immigrants from detention,” according to the chain notes cited above. Likewise, they could “file a lawsuit to force the State Department to impose visa sanctions on countries that refuse to accept citizens eligible for deportation.”