Funding for increased detention is not included in the Laken Riley Act. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that to ...

ATLANTA — It has been one year since nursing student Laken Riley was murdered at the University of Georgia. Her death made ...

President Donald Trump signed the first bill of his new administration – the Laken Riley Act, named for an AU nursing student who was slain on the University of Georgia campus.

Sen. Wes Kitchens, R-Arab, said his bill would allow state, county, and city police to detain someone arrested for a crime ...

The Laken Riley Act is aimed at detaining more illegal immigrants, including those accused of theft and burglary.

President Donald Trump codified the bill named after a Georgia woman who was killed by an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant ...

The act disproportionately targets immigrants, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and increasing fear of deportation.

The Laken Riley Act aims to expand the federal government's mandate to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally.

The Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes ...

The new law is the first that Trump has signed in his second term. “The Laken Riley Act will become the very first bill that I proudly sign into law as the 47th president of the United States ...

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which mandates the deportation of undocumented immigrants convicted of nonviolent crimes. ATLANTA - Legislation named in honor of a Georgia nursing student ...