The 264-159 vote to pass the Laken Riley Act puts pressure on Senate Democrats to support the legislation when Republicans, who now control the upper chamber, bring it to the floor for an initial ...

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

Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants ...

But if improving public safety and national security are goals of the incoming administration, experts say Trump’s promised mass deportations, and GOP-led proposals such as the Laken Riley Act, could ...

Deporting criminals, including shoplifters, is a no brainer. But the Laken Riley Act isn’t that simple. The legislation cruising through Congress does not just expand deportation of nonviolent ...

Nothing about the Laken Riley Act, the anti-immigration law that passed the House last week and is now being taken up in the Senate, would have prevented the murder of the young Georgia nursing ...

The Laken Riley Act, which the House passed last week with 48 Democrats, is being debated in the Senate this week. It will need support from seven Democrats to pass if all 53 Republicans vote yes, and ...

The Senate inched closer Monday to final passage of the Laken Riley Act, which requires immigration officials to detain illegal migrants who engage in theft, shoplifting and related crimes.

On Friday, the Senate is set to take up the Laken Riley Act, a bill named after a Georgia nursing student who was murdered by a Venezuelan citizen who was in the United States illegally.

The Laken Riley Act overwhelmingly advanced in an 82-10 vote that brought the bill one step closer to final passage after passing a test vote in the upper chamber last week. It would require ...

The Senate is expected this week to take up the Laken Riley bill, a measure that Republicans have championed as one of their first actions to address what they have deemed as necessary changes to ...