President Donald Trump signed his first bill into law today and it is one with Iowa ties. Trump signed the Lakin Riley Act, ...

When Lakin Riley refused to be his victim ... discarding the jacket and other items shortly after Riley’s murder. Forensic analysis of the gloves found near the crime scene revealed Riley ...

THE PROPOSAL HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE LAKIN RILEY ACT, WHICH REQUIRES FEDERAL ... D BEEN ARRESTED FOR SHOPLIFTING AND RELEASED BEFORE THE MURDER. ERNST SAYS WITHOUT PASSAGE OF THESE COMBINED ...

Riley was a nursing student, killed nearly a year ago in Georgia by a Venezuelan who’d been arrested for shoplifting and released before the murder. Ernst says without passage of these combined ...

Sarah’s Law requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep illegal immigrants in custody if they’ve been arrested and charged with murder or ... added onto the Lakin Riley Act, which ...

And there are other measures in place that would empower states, in particular a bill named after Lakin Riley, who was a victim of a murder carried out by an unauthorized immigrant. Yeah ...

Laken Riley was killed while going for a run on the University of Georgia campus in late February of 2024.

Ibarra was convicted of murder and other charges in the Riley case and is currently serving a life sentence without parole. The new Laken Riley Act requires federal authorities to detain ...

In November, a Georgia judge found Ibarra guilty during his bench trial and sentenced him to life in prison without parole for Riley’s murder. Officials had arrested Ibarra for entering the ...

He was found guilty of Riley’s murder in November 2024 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Ibarra had been arrested for illegal entry in September 2022 near El Paso, Texas ...

Supporters argue that it will make the U.S. safer and that if it had been law in 2024, it may have saved the life of Laken Riley. The young woman's murder at the hands of a Venezuelan in the U.S ...