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

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

Yet Torres voted for the Laken Riley Act that includes undocumented migrants who are accused of nonviolent theft-based crimes ...

The Laken Riley Act would put immigrants without legal status under federal detention without the possibility of being ...

The bill, which has divided Democrats, would require law enforcement to detain noncitizens who commit primarily theft-related ...

President-elect Trump is officially returning to Washington, set to be inaugurated on Monday for his second term in the White House as the Republican Party trifecta takes form. Congress is set to ...

By Richard Cowan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ten U.S. Senate Democrats provided the votes needed on Friday to ...

The first week of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks concluded Friday with Department of ...

On Jan. 7, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill named for Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student killed in February by a man who was in the country illegally. The Laken Riley Act would ...

Who runs the U.S. immigration system? If the Senate passes the Laken Riley Act this week, the answer might not be Congress or the president. The bill, already passed in the House, would hand state ...

A spokesman for Murray said the senator will work to improve the Laken Riley Act through the amendment process this week, but she opposes the bill in its current form “because she believes our ...