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

Sebastian Zapeta, who allegedly set a woman on fire in the NYC subway, and Laken Riley's killer, Jose Ibarra, were among violent migrants arrested or convicted in 2024.

The Laken Riley Act is expected to become law and increase immigration detentions but will depend in New York on state and ...

The House passed the legislation one day after it passed the Senate, teeing it up to be Trump’s first bill signed into law.

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

Hours after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the nation’s 47th president, the U.S. Senate approved a bill named for the Georgia student whose murder by an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant became a ...

The Laken Riley Act legislation pending in Congress would unconstitutionally elevate state powers over immigration while ...

The House voted at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, passing the bill as its first piece of legislation of the 119th ...

As Congress worked to pass the Laken Riley Act, strengthening immigration enforcement powers in the name of a murdered University of Georgia student, much remained unknown about how the law would work ...

The U.S. Senate voted 64-35 on Monday to pass the proposed Laken Riley Act and sent the measure to the House of ...

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