US President Donald Trump has signed the Immigrant Detention Act. This law gives the right to detain illegal immigrants accused of cases like theft, burglary before trial. But the Raleigh Act is the first law he has signed after assuming office. This law was named after Laken Raleigh, a 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia, who was murdered by an illegal immigrant.

These immigrants can be taken into custody

Trump said that under the law I am signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, assault on a police officer, murder, or any crime that results in death or serious injury to another person.

order to build a detention center

At the same time, Trump also signed a Presidential Memorandum. According to this, an order has been given to set up a 30,000 capacity detention center at Guantanamo Bay to keep high priority criminals in custody.

The bay has been used to keep terrorists till now. Trump said that some of them are so dangerous that sending them to their home country would be less. We don't want them to come back, so we are going to send them to Guantanamo.

Bill introduced in Senate to ban birthright citizenship

Republican senators introduced a bill in the Senate to ban birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants and non-immigrants on temporary visas. The US is one of the 33 countries in the world where there is no ban on birthright citizenship. This step has been taken after the court put a stay on Trump's order.

Over 7,000 Indian students and visitors overstayed in US in 2023

Jessica M Van of the Center for Immigration Studies suggested several reforms in immigration policy to the US House Committee on the Judiciary, including reforms related to H-1B visas. She said that more than 7,000 students and visitors from India overstayed in 2023. She said that 32 countries have overstay rate of students/visitors more than 20 percent.

What is the F-1 Visa?

The F and M visa categories have the highest overstay rates of any broad category of temporary admission. The F-1 visa allows an individual to enter the United States as a full-time student at an accredited college, university, academic high school, elementary school, or other educational institution or language training program.

Wan said Brazil, China, Colombia and India each had more than 2,000 citizens overstaying student/exchange visas in 2023, with Indians accounting for the highest number at 7,000.