Washington (AP) – United States President Donald Trump promulgated Laken Riley law, which grants greater powers to federal authorities to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally and have been accused of crimes . During the ceremony, he also announced that his government planned to send to the “worst foreign criminals” to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba.
The Bipartisan Law, the first approved during Trump’s second term, is named after Riley, a 22 -year -old Nursing student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan who lived in the United States illegally.
“She was a lighthouse of warmth and kindness,” Trump said during the promulgation ceremony, in which the parents and sister of Riley were present. “It is a huge tribute to his daughter what is happening today, that’s all I can say. It’s so sad that we have to do it. ”
Trump has promised to drastically increase deportations, but also said at the ceremony that they did not trust that some of the people sent back to their countries of origin would stay there.
“Some of them are so bad that we don’t even trust that countries will retain them because we don’t want them to come back, so we will send them to Guantanamo,” Trump said. He said he will instruct federal officials to prepare the facilities in Cuba to receive migrant criminals.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to stop the worst foreign criminals who threaten the American people,” said the president.
The White House announced shortly after Trump had signed a presidential memorandum on Guantanamo. The defenders of the rights of immigrants soon expressing their dismay.
“The history of abuses of Guantanamo Bay speaks for itself and without a doubt it will endanger the physical and mental health of people,” said Stacy Suh, director of Detention Watch Network programs, in a statement.
Trump said the measure would double the United States detention capabilities, Trump said at the promulgation ceremony, adding that Guantanamo is “a difficult place to leave.”
Guantanamo’s installation could house “dangerous criminals” and people who are “difficult to deport,” said a federal government official who spoke under anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, said that the Government will seek financing through the bills of expenses that Congress will eventually discuss. The “border tsar”, Tom Homan, indicated that the United States Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE for its initials in English) would administer the installation in Cuba and that “the worst of the worst” could go there.
The military base has been used to house the United States War detainees against terrorism for years. But the authorities have also arrested migrants in the sea in an installation known as the Migration Operations Center in Guantanamo, a place that the United States has long rented to the Cuban government. Many of those housed there have been migrants from Haiti and Cuba.
The United States has been leaving Guantanamo to Cuba for more than a century. Cuba opposes the lease and usually rejects the nominal payments of the American rental. Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, said it was an “act of brutality” that Trump wants to send migrants to the island.
Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez also lashed out at the announcement.
“The decision of the United States Government to imprison in the Naval Base of Guantanamo to Migrants, in an enclave where he created centers of torture and indefinite detention, shows contempt for the human condition and international law,” Rodríguez published in the social network X .
The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that enemy combatants in the war against terrorism that are arrested without charges in Guantanamo military prison had the right to challenge their arrest before a federal court. However, the judges did not decide if the president had the authority to detain people at all.
Before Trump assumed the position, the democratic governments of former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden worked to reduce the number of terrorism suspects stopped in Guantanamo.
Laken Riley was running in February 2024 when she was killed by José Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan who was in the country illegally. Ibarra was convicted in November and sentenced to life imprisonment without probation.
Ibarra had been arrested by illegal entry in September 2022 near El Paso, Texas, and was released to continue with its case in the Immigration Court. Federal officials said he was arrested by the New York Police in August 2023 for endangering a child and was subsequently released. Police added that he also received an order of appearance for theft in stores in Georgia in October 2023.
The law was rapidly approved by the Congress recently controlled by Republicans with a little Democratic support, although the defenders of immigrants said they could cause great raids of people for crimes as lower as the robbery in stores.
The rapid approval and promulgation of Trump nine days after assuming office add a powerful symbolism for conservatives. For critics, the measure has taken advantage of a tragedy and could lead to chaos and cruelty while recently to combat crime or reform the immigration system.
Riley’s mother thanked Trump while containing tears.
“He said he would ensure our borders and that he would never forget Laken and has not done so,” he said.
Several high -ranking Republican legislators and Noem attended the ceremony, as well as Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a copatrocinator.
Under the new law, federal officials would have to stop any immigrant arrested or accused of crimes such as theft or aggression to a police officer, or crimes that injure or kill someone. State General Prosecutors could sue the United States Government for damages caused by federal immigration decisions, which would potentially allow the leaders of the conservative states to help dictate the immigration policy established by Washington.
Some Democrats have questioned whether it is constitutional. ACLU pointed out that the law can allow people to be “enclosed, potentially, potentially for years, because at some point in their lives, perhaps decades ago, they were accused of non -violent crimes.”
Hannah Flamm, Interim Director of Policies of the International Refugee Assistance project, commented that the measure violates the basic rights of immigrants by allowing the arrest of people who have not been accused of crimes, much less convicted.
“The latent fear of the electoral cycle of seems weak in the issue of crime has become help and foster Trump’s total confusion of immigration with crime,” Flamm explained.
“I think it is essential to understand that: this bill, framed as related to a tragic death, is a pretext to strengthen a mass deportation system,” he said.
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
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