Congress passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support. Here's what the strict measure really means for undocumented ...

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

If signed into law, the Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes.

The act is named after Laken Riley, the student who was killed at the University of Georgia by Jose Ibarra, 26, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.

The Laken Riley Act is on track to become the first bill Donald Trump signs into law as president and a sign of his intent.

There's a popular mantra among skeptics of government power that goes like this: If a law is named after a person, it's ...

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 ...

Here's what to know about the controversial Laken Riley Act, named after the college student who was killed while running on ...

The Laken Riley Act, named after a student who was murdered on the University of Georgia campus, would require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes.

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 ...