The Laken Riley Act passed the House on Tuesday with support from 216 Republicans and 48 Democrats. The Senate is considering the legislation, which has drawn an unusual amount of support from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A spokesman for Murray said the senator will work to improve the Laken Riley Act through the amendment process this week, but she opposes the bill in its current form “because she believes our ...

However, the Laken Riley Act does not include funding provisions to cover its expanded detention requirements. The report also highlights potential risks if emergency funding is not secured.

The new Congress is acting fast to pass what's called the Laken Riley Act. Forty-eight Democrats joined every Republican in the House to pass a bill that would mandate federal detention if a ...

The new Congress is acting fast to pass what's called the Laken Riley Act. Forty-eight Democrats joined every Republican in the House to pass a bill that would mandate federal detention if a person in ...