The U.S. House passed the Laken Riley Act to detain undocumented individuals charged with nonviolent crimes. Named after a ...

As Senators Mitch McConnell (R–KY), John Thune (R–SD), and John Cornyn (R–TX) pointed out, if the rule changes are implemented, it “will be a sorry sight to see the judiciary haled into its own courts ...

The bill, named for Laken Riley, a Georgia student killed by an immigrant, adds legislative muscle to President Trump’s immigration enforcement push.

District 6 representative was only Maryland Democrat to approve measure for immigrant detention headed for Trump's signature.

The House voted on an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, two weeks after it initially passed the bill.

The Laken Riley Act will now go to Trump's desk and symbolically will become the first measure he signs into law of his ...

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

Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen who was in the United States illegally, was found guilty of the kidnapping, assault and ...

The House on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act to require federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused of ...

The strict measure, named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant, has ...

The U.S. House Wednesday passed legislation that greatly expands mandatory detention requirements of immigrants charged and ...

Jury selection kicked off in trial of former Brunswick circuit district attorney Jackie Johnson who is accused of using her ...