The legislation, the Laken Riley Act, S. 5, would greatly expand detention of immigrants and give state attorneys general broad discretion to challenge federal immigration policy if enacted into law.

Deporting criminals, including shoplifters, is a no brainer. But the Laken Riley Act isn’t that simple. The legislation cruising through Congress does not just expand deportation of nonviolent ...

It’s a response to the murder last year of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student who was killed by an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant who had been previously arrested for shoplifting.

5, the Laken Riley Act—a proposal allowing federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft and related crimes. #lakenriley #immigration #ussenate #usa #news #live ...

The Laken Riley Act on Monday cleared a second procedural hurdle in the Senate as talk turns to an amendment push by Democrats in order to potentially make alterations to the bill. Senators voted ...

The Laken Riley Act overwhelmingly advanced in an 82-10 vote that brought the bill one step closer to final passage after passing a test vote in the upper chamber last week. It would require ...

The Senate is expected this week to take up the Laken Riley bill, a measure that Republicans have championed as one of their first actions to address what they have deemed as necessary changes to ...

The U.S. Senate is readying to vote this week on a bill that could dramatically increase detentions of people living in the country illegally, while also giving state attorneys general like Ken ...

Sources at the DHS, under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, are reportedly citing the exorbitant cost of enforcing the Laken Riley Act under consideration, according to reporter Pablo Manriquez in a ...

BOSTON — Nearly every member of the all-Democrat Massachusetts congressional delegation voted against a bill named after slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require the detention of ...