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 ...

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

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said on Wednesday that Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act are “playing politics.” ...

Congress passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support. Here's what the strict measure really means for undocumented ...

The House of Representatives voted to pass the Laken Riley Act, a bill named after an Augusta University student murdered on ...

The U.S. House has passed the Laken Riley Act, which requires Homeland Security to detain undocumented migrants who are charged with certain crimes.

Democrats join Republicans in cracking down hard on criminal illegal immigrants, and week one of President Donald Trump’s ...

Who was Laken Riley? Georgia nursing student who was brutally killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, who entered the US illegally in September 2022.

The Laken Riley Act will now go to Trump's desk and symbolically will become the first measure he signs into law of his ...

Find out more about President Donald Trump’s first immigration bill, which has just passed the House 263-156 with the support of 46 Democrats.

House Republicans have voted to approve a bill that would require authorities to detain undocumented immigrants who are accused of theft and violent crimes.

The act is named after Laken Riley, the student who was killed at the University of Georgia by Jose Ibarra, 26, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.