Laken Riley Act passes final congressional vote

The Laken Riley Act is expected to become law and increase immigration detentions but will depend in New York on state and ...
Since mandatory immigration detention was first signed into law in 1996 for a subset of people in deportation proceedings, it ...
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 ...
The House has passed a bill to require the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.
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 ...