The Laken Riley Act is expected to become law and increase immigration detentions but will depend in New York on state and local policing policies.

The bill is named after Laken Riley, a nursing student who was killed last year. The legislation would require federal officials to detain any unauthorized immigrant arrested or charged with a violent crime.

The Laken Riley Act, as the bill is known, directs the authorities to deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes, if they are in the country illegally.

The strict measure, named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant, has divided Democrats.

The House passed the legislation one day after it passed the Senate, teeing it up to be Trump’s first bill signed into law.

The House of Representatives voted to pass the Laken Riley Act, a bill named after an Augusta University student murdered on her morning jog at UGA by an undocumented migrant.

A crucial faction of 46 politically vulnerable Democrats joined with Republicans to lift the strict proposal to passage on a 263-156 vote tally.

The US Congress has passed a bill requiring undocumented immigrants who are arrested for theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial. The bill, named after Laken Riley - a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by a Venezuelan man - passed the House of Representatives a day after it was approved by the Senate.