The Alabama Senate passed a bill Thursday that the sponsor said would help state and local law enforcement identify and ...

Trump put pen to paper on a piece of legislation that will mandate federal authorities detain illegal immigrants arrested for theft and related crimes before deporting them. The b ...

The act is named after Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student murdered by an undocumented immigrant previously released from custody after a shoplifting charge. President Trump signed the Laken ...

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

Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted at him, “Say her name!” FILE — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wears a Laken Riley shirt as she arrives before President Joe Biden delivers the State of ...

John Cornyn (R-Texas) that ensures attacks against law enforcement will result in automatic detentions. Democrats who opposed the Laken Riley Act argued that immigration authorities lack the ...

The Laken Riley Act is headed back to the House after ... The bill, introduced in the new Congress by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., in the Senate and Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., in the House, was ...

The House on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, sending the immigration-related bill to President Trump’s desk in what is poised to be his first legislative victory since returning to the White ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) navigated the Laken Riley Act through his chamber’s cumbersome voting procedures. Getty Images Immigration officials have said Ibarra illegally crossed ...

That’s music to the ears of Republicans. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), the Laken Riley Act’s lead sponsor, said she was “thrilled” to have Gallego on board with the bill she led through the ...

Katie Britt, R-Ala., who helped push the bill through the Senate ... That’s why I voted to pass the Laken Riley Act,” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., said on social media after its passage. New ...