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Trump’s Laken Riley Act is misuse of tragedy intended only to persecute immigrants | Opinion
The new Laken Riley Act requires federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants charged, but not convicted, with assaulting law enforcement. But it goes dangerously farther by including lesser ...
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How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’
People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...
President Trump signs Laken Riley Act. Here's how it ties to Texas.
The Laken Riley Act, signed into law by President Trump, is named after a Georgia nursing student murdered by an unauthorized ...
What is the Laken Riley Act? Read the law that's the first to be signed by Trump
The legislation will require immigration officers to detain immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally when they're accused of lower-level crimes like shoplifting.
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Senate passes 'Laken Riley' crime bill with support from Sens. Mark Kelly, Ruben Gallego
The U.S. Senate passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support ... Jose Antonio Ibarra, the Venezuelan national indicted on murder charges, has come to symbolize a slow-moving deportation ...
What is the Laken Riley Act? A look at the first bill Trump will sign
President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Georgia ...