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

As Congress worked to pass the Laken Riley Act, strengthening immigration enforcement powers in the name of a murdered University of Georgia student, much remained unknown about how the law would work ...

Laken Riley Act in US sparked concerns over the treatment meted out to illegal immigrants, including those from India, in the ...

The U.S. Senate voted to pass the Laken Riley Act on Monday, Jan. 20, giving local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and ...

The United States House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, Jan. 22, requiring local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants in the ...

The U.S. House passed the Laken Riley Act to detain undocumented individuals charged with nonviolent crimes. Named after a ...

On Jan. 7, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill named for Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student killed in February by a man who was in the country illegally. The Laken Riley Act would ...

Katie Britt, R-Ala., in the Senate and Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., in the House once the new Congress began. "Today’s vote on the Laken Riley Act is an important step forward in making our country ...

NEW ORLEANS — In a city still reeling from a terror attack that killed at least 14 and injured dozens of others just hours after the new year began, Georgia ...

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