Laken Riley was found dead on February 22, 2024, in a wooded area near UGA’s intramural fields. Investigators said she had gone for a run when she was attacked. Her disappearance prompted an immediate ...

A new law has vastly expanded the ability of federal authorities to detain and deport migrants who end up in police custody ...

Uncertainty over the impact of immigration crackdowns in Nevada became even more so after a new law vastly expanded opportunities for federal authorities to detain migrants who ...

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Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, and Troy Carter, D-New Orleans. Fields did not vote on the Laken Riley Act for some reason. However, Troy Carter voted against this bill. The Laken Riley Act called for ...

Nearly one year ago, 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was murdered by a Venezuelan national who had been arrested multiple times for multiple offenses in America’s interior.

It is highly significant that the first bill signed into law by President Donald Trump was the Laken Riley Act ... over the rights of the citizens they are supposed to protect.

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law last month ... of Homeland Security or the U.S. Attorney General if they believe the law is not being enforced.

THIS WEDNESDAY HE SIGNED THE LAKEN RILEY ACT ... THEM GET AN APARTMENT. AND FIND WORK. SO ON AND SO FORTH. AND WITH THE STOP ORDER, THAT ALSO MEANS THAT THEY WON'T RECEIVE FUNDING TO PROVIDE ...

Mike Collins of Georgia, the Laken Riley Act requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants illegally in the U.S. if they've been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny ...

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, marking the first legislative win of his second term amid a broader illegal immigration crackdown.