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

President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration. It's named after a slain Georgia nursing ...

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

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

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

The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes ...

The Laken Riley Act was passed on a 264-159 vote, with 48 House Democrats joining the Republican majority. The bill will now ...

Last March, the House passed the Laken Riley Act on a 251 to 170 vote, with 37 Democrats — most representing swing districts or running for statewide office — joining all Republicans in voting ...

The House approved its first policy legislation of the new Congress on Tuesday with a bill aimed at addressing illegal immigration.

The Laken Riley Act is set to become the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Donald Trump after the bill ...

The White House is reserving judgment regarding whether President Joe Biden would sign the Republican-proposed Laken Riley Act into law. “The process is still playing out,” press secretary ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), one of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment ...