President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Georgia ...

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.” ...

The bill, named after Laken Riley - a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by a Venezuelan man - passed the House of ...

The House voted on an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, two weeks after it initially passed the bill.

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

Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants ...

The Laken Riley Act, as the bill is known, directs the authorities to deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — ...

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

The bill would require law enforcement to detain immigrants without legal status arrested for crimes including larceny and ...

Last March, the House passed the Laken Riley Act on a 251 to 170 vote, with 37 Democrats — most representing swing districts or running for statewide office — joining all Republicans in voting ...

The Laken Riley Act would require U.S. immigration authorities ... a major campaign issue in last year’s presidential race. Forty-eight House Democrats joined Republicans to pass the bill ...