Representative Mike Collins' (R-GA) pivotal legislation, the Laken Riley Act, has passed in both the House and the Senate and will head to President Donald Tr ...

Trump made immigration a centerpiece of his campaign. The passage of the Laken Riley Act is the first step in his plan.

Former Augusta commissioner John Clarke has suffered a heart attack, according to Commissioner Catherine Smith-Rice. Almost one year after Laken Riley’s murder in Athens, the bill bearing her name ...

The Laken Riley Act, named after a student who was murdered on the University of Georgia campus, would require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes.

The act is named after Laken Riley, the student who was killed at the University of Georgia by Jose Ibarra, 26, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.

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

When the federal government increased its deportation efforts in the mid-1970s, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, then a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, recalls the harm it caused by forcing many ...

The United States House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, Jan. 22, requiring local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants in the ...

President Donald Trump will soon sign the Laken Riley Act, which will require the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants arrested for violent crimes, theft, burglary or shoplifting. Laurie ...

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

Mississippi State Rep. Justin Keen used Laken Riley case to defend his bill aimed at bounty hunting illegal immigrants in the state.