If signed into law, the Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent ...

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...

A crucial faction of 46 politically vulnerable Democrats joined with Republicans to lift the strict proposal to passage on a ...

The House on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, sending the immigration-related bill to President Trump’s desk in what is ...

Washington — The House approved the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, signing off on the Senate's changes to the legislation ...

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

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

The House of Representatives passed a Senate-revised version of the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, sending the first piece of ...

The Laken Riley Act, named after a student who was murdered on the University of Georgia campus, would require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes.

The United States House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, Jan. 22, requiring local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants in the ...

The Laken Riley Act was passed on a 264-159 vote, with 48 House Democrats joining the Republican majority. The bill will now move to the Republican-controlled Senate, which will take the measure ...

The Republican-led House passed its first bill of the new Congress on Tuesday — a strict border measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student whose murder last year by an immigrant in ...