Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., who introduced the Laken Riley Act, said the legislation — named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student murdered by an illegal alien – has helped federal immigration authorities remove “a lot of these criminals” before they “committed major crime.”

The bill was the first piece of legislation President Donald Trump signed into law when he began his second term, and Collins told Newsmax’s “National Report” that “the reason was the news media helped us keep her name in the media, and it became the face of this problem that we have had in our country during the Biden administration.”

“The American people were demanding for something to be done and the Laken Riley Act was laying right there,” Collins said Wednesday. “And the other part of that, I think that President Trump saw that. He had already addressed that the border security was the number one problem in our country and the fact that these thugs, these criminals have invaded our country and have been raping and pillaging Americans.”

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