The Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes ...

The Arizona senator said he’s breaking with a party that’s “largely out of touch with where your average Latino is.” ...

The House voted at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, passing the bill as its first piece of legislation of the 119th ...

The U.S. Senate voted 64-35 on Monday to pass the proposed Laken Riley Act and sent the measure to the House of ...

This bill would require the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take an unlawfully present migrant into custody if ...

The bill, named for the Georgia woman murdered by an illegal immigrant, mandates detention of undocumented immigrants for ...

David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, on X: "The Laken Riley Act pretends to be about stopping ...

The House has passed a bill to require the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.

The bill is one of the first signs that Republicans want to quickly act on Donald Trump's immigration policies.

Who was Laken Riley? Georgia nursing student who was brutally killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, who entered the US illegally in September 2022.

The bill, which would require federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes, was the first to be voted on by the newly installed Republican-controlled Senate.

If Congress can get the bill through both chambers, it could be one of the first pieces of legislation President Trump signs ...