The federal Laken Riley Act expands the scope of crimes that could place a person living in the U.S. without legal status in ...

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The Laken Riley Act requires immigration officers to detain undocumented immigrants who are suspected, arrested, charged, or ...

The Laken Riley Act directs Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain illegal immigrants arrested or charged with ...

The act is named after Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student murdered by an undocumented immigrant previously released from ...

College students called out Fordham University’s President after she sent an email to the school showing support for illegal ...

In signing the most significant piece of immigration-enforcement legislation to reach the Resolute Desk since 1996, President ...

President Donald Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

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 aims to expand the federal government's mandate to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally.

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 ...

President Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, marking his first legislative victory since he returned to ...