President Donald Trump has signed the first law of his second administration: the Laken Riley Act. The legislation will require immigration officers to detain immigrants who are in the U.S ...

Washington — President Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act, which aims to expand the federal government's mandate to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally, marking the ...

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act—an immigration enforcement law named for a 22-year-old college student who was murdered last February—into law on Wednesday, making it the ...

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, marking the first piece of legislation to become law in his second administration. "This horrific atrocity should never ...

The president praised Riley as “a light of warmth and kindness,” thanking her parents and sister, who attended the bill signing, and said the cause had brought together Democrats and Republicans.

In his first piece of legislation, President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday. The law requires illegal immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes to be detained and ...

The law allows the detention of migrants accused of crimes before conviction. Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday afternoon as the president approves a series of initiatives meant to ...

The Laken Riley Act, as the law is known, directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes, if they are in the country illegally.

The U.S. Senate passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support — including both of Arizona’s Democratic senators — keeping a crackdown on illegal immigrants involved in criminal cases on ...

If signed into law, the Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes. The bill won bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

The bill – called the Laken Riley Act – will next go to the White House to be signed into law after the Senate approved the measure earlier in the week. The House vote was 263 to 156 with 46 ...