The Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes ...

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

The Laken Riley Act is the first bill that will come to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature as the 47th President.

Its passage shows just how sharply the political debate over immigration has shifted to the right following Trump’s election victory.

President Trump prepares to sign the Laken Riley Act, named after a murdered Georgia nursing student. It mandates detention ...

The Laken Riley Act would require ICE to detain immigrants without legal permission who commit theft-related crimes. The bill, named after a Georgia nursing student killed by an immigrant without ...

The bill would require Immigration and Customs ... she led by example," said Allyson and John Phillips, Laken Riley’s mother and stepfather, in a statement. "The Laken Riley Act has our full ...

The Senate is expected this week to take up the Laken Riley bill, a measure that Republicans have championed as one of their first actions to address what they have deemed as necessary changes to ...

Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Thursday helped Republicans advance an immigration bill named after murdered nursing student Laken Riley, but some experts are questioning whether they really know ...

The Laken Riley Act on Monday cleared a second procedural hurdle in the Senate as talk turns to an amendment push by Democrats in order to potentially make alterations to the bill. Senators voted ...

The Senate voted Friday to end debate on a bill named for murdered jogger Laken Riley that would help federal authorities crack down on illegal immigrants who steal or brawl with cops — and let ...