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(NewsNation) — Alexis Nungaray, parent of Jocelyn Nungaray, says it's been a alleviation to spot President Donald Trump's deportation flights begin.
"This should person happened years ago," Nungaray told NewsNation's Blake Burman. "These guys that took Jocelyn's beingness should person been connected a formation conscionable similar that."
Nungaray's 12-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, was sexually assaulted and killed successful Houston past June. Two Venezuelan men who were successful the state illegally person been charged with superior murder for her death.
Nungaray was astatine the White House connected Wednesday arsenic Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, calling the infinitesimal "surreal" and "bittersweet."
"It's a calamity that we person to beryllium present successful the archetypal place," Nungaray said. "But it's truthful singular that we get to beryllium present successful grant of making change."
The Laken Riley Act — named aft a slain Georgia nursing pupil who was killed by a Venezuelan man successful the state illegally — gives national authorities broader powerfulness to deport immigrants successful the U.S. illegally who person been accused of crimes.
Nungaray said she's honoring her daughter's bequest by pushing for amended borderline security: "Anyone who has immoderate benignant of grounds doesn't beryllium here."
The Laken Riley Act received bipartisan enactment — a constituent U.S. Senator Ted Budd, R-N.C., emphasized successful a speech with NewsNation connected Wednesday.
"Americans privation our state safe, and they privation america prosperous, and contiguous was astir safety," Budd told Elizabeth Vargas.
