The Laken Riley Act requires immigration officers to detain undocumented immigrants who are suspected, arrested, charged, or ...

The federal Laken Riley Act expands the scope of crimes that could place a person living in the U.S. without legal status in immigration detention and in deportation proceedings. The Georgia law under ...

President Donald Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act into law. Read about the bill and see social media reactions here.

President Donald Trump codified the bill named after a Georgia woman who was killed by an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant ...

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law. It's the first bill Trump signed in his second term as president.

On Jan. 29, President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which is an immigration detention measure, into law. The U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval of the bill in a 263-156 ...

Bill named for slain Georgia nursing student becomes the first law signed into law by 47th president, who made immigration a ...

The new Laken Riley Act requires federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants charged, but not convicted, with assaulting law enforcement. But it goes dangerously farther by including lesser ...

Nearly one year ago, 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was murdered by a Venezuelan national who had been ...

Georgia U.S. Rep. Mike Collins introduced the Laken Riley Act last year and reintroduced it for the 119th Congress. It passed with bipartisan support. “This is the right thing to do,” House ...

The bill is named after Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was killed in 2024 by a Venezuelan national in the U.S.