If signed into law, the Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes.

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.

The Laken Riley Act is likely to be the first bill President Donald Trump signs into law in his second term in office. A teen fatally shot a female student and wounded another at a Nashville high school.