More than 1,030 criminal illegal immigrants have been arrested under the Laken Riley Act as part of Operation Angel’s Honor, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement on Dec. 22.
Operation Angel’s Honor was a 14-day nationwide ICE operation that has now concluded. The Laken Riley Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Jan. 29, named in honor of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Hope Riley from Georgia, who was murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in February 2024.
The Act requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to arrest any foreign national charged with crimes such as theft, burglary, assault, or those resulting in serious bodily injury or death, even if the individual was granted bail from state detention by a court….