President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Georgia ...

Congress passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support. Here's what the strict measure really means for undocumented ...

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

The bill, which has divided Democrats, would require law enforcement to detain noncitizens who commit primarily theft-related ...

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

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said on Wednesday that Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act are “playing politics.” ...

The bill, named after Laken Riley - a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by a Venezuelan man - passed the House of ...

The House voted on an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, two weeks after it initially passed the bill.

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 Laken Riley Act would require U.S. immigration authorities ... a major campaign issue in last year’s presidential race. Forty-eight House Democrats joined Republicans to pass the bill ...