The Laken Riley Act, propelled by Iowa’s congressional delegation, became President Donald Trump’s first bill signed into law ...

President Donald Trump signed Sarah's Law into effect Wednesday as an amendment to the Laken Riley Act, marking another ...

The Laken Riley Act is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk following a final congressional vote Wednesday, along with an amendment championed by Iowa’s Republican delegation and written ...

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.

The bill is named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man without legal status who had a ...

The House approved the Laken Riley Act, aimed at detaining undocumented immigrants who commit certain nonviolent crimes, following the murder of Laken Riley by an undocumented immigrant. With ...

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

President Donald Trump holds the document after signing the Laken Riley Act during an event in the East Room of the White ...

The Iowans’ push stems from the 2016 death of Sarah Root, a Council Bluffs resident who was killed by an undocumented immigrant driving drunk.