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

The House on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, sending the immigration-related bill to President Trump’s desk in what is ...

The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes ...

The legislation will require federal agents to detain illegal immigrants arrested for theft and other related crimes until ...

Voting for [the Laken Riley Act] means you’ve helped undermine basic rights and erode the rule of law, and will cause real ...

The Laken Riley Act, aimed at clamping down on people in the U.S. illegally who commit nonviolent crimes like theft, is ...

The Laken Riley Act is set to become the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Donald Trump after the bill passed through the House a second time on Wednesday.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), one of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment ...

The White House is reserving judgment regarding whether President Joe Biden would sign the Republican-proposed Laken Riley Act into law. “The process is still playing out,” press secretary ...

The Laken Riley Act directs federal authorities to deport immigrants who are accused, but not yet convicted, of specific ...

The long-pushed Laken Riley Act could be one of the first bills to hit President Trump's desk in his new term.

The new law will require the Department of Homeland Security to detain immigrants without legal status accused of theft, ...