The legislation, known as the Laken Riley Act, is the first to be signed by the president in his new term, and shows how the politics of immigration have shifted.

The Laken Riley Act, as the law is known, directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

A GOP-led bill to require the detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes is on the verge of passage in ...

BOSTON — Nearly every member of the all-Democrat Massachusetts congressional delegation voted against a bill named after slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require the detention of ...

Catherine Rampell / Washington Post So some Democratic senators have thrown their support behind the exploitatively titled Laken Riley Act, which takes its name from a young nursing student ...

The Senate approved its first change to the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday evening, adding the assault of police officers to the list of offenses that trigger the detention of illegal immigrants.