Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...

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

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 bill is named after Laken Riley, a nursing student who was killed last year. The legislation would require federal ...

Hours after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the nation’s 47th president, the U.S. Senate approved a bill named for the Georgia student whose murder by an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant became a ...

As Congress worked to pass the Laken Riley Act, strengthening immigration enforcement powers in the name of a murdered University of Georgia student, much remained unknown about how the law would work ...

The U.S. Senate voted 64-35 on Monday to pass the proposed Laken Riley Act and sent the measure to the House of ...

The Laken Riley Act legislation pending in Congress would unconstitutionally elevate state powers over immigration while ...

But the appropriation of her death by anti-immigration hard-liners felt inevitable: As soon as law enforcement said last February that an undocumented immigrant was their suspect ... have saved Laken ...

President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration. It's named after a slain Georgia nursing ...

If signed into law, the Laken Riley Act would require the detention ... right to a jury trial and was found guilty in November of murder and other crimes by a judge, who alone heard and decided ...