On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump announced a series of executive actions addressing immigration and border security. Signing orders his officials called "common-sense immigration policies,

The Department of Justice is planning to investigate and possibly prosecute state and local officials who hinder Trump administration immigration efforts.

A memo from the acting deputy attorney general instructs officials to identify state and local laws and policies that “threaten to impede” the Trump administration's immigration efforts.

President Donald Trump's administration has directed U.S. prosecutors to criminally probe local officials who resist immigration enforcement efforts, intensifying a sweeping crackdown that Trump launched the day he took office.

The House passed an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday on a vote of 263 to 156, two weeks after it initially passed the bill. The bill, which was expected to pass, will now go to President Donald Trump's desk and symbolically will become the first measure he signs into law of his second administration.

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.

"My office is a law enforcement entity. We are going to follow the Constitution and uphold the law," Krasner said as Trump officials threatened consequences for uncooperative local officials.