Trump scores his first big win on immigration as Laken Riley Act passes easily

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Almost all the of Democratic senators hailed from swing states, including Georgia's Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, which Donald Trump won in the 2024 presidential election.
58% : Perhaps most tenuously, Trump signed an executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed in the 14th amendment of the US Constitution.
56% : "Obviously, President Trump has been diligently working to put a vision in front of the American people, and it's one that they overwhelmingly agree with, and securing the border has been at the center of that," Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, the main sponsor of the legislation, told The Independent.
40% : Trump also signed an executive order to freeze asylum claims, despite asylum being guaranteed under U.S. and international law.
39% : On his first day in office, Trump announced a slew of executive orders related to immigration, including declaring a national emergency at the border, reinstating a "Remain in Mexico" policy that requires immigrants to stay in Mexico as immigration authorities process their asylum claims.

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