The law has been used to order the release of people like Maria Tumba Huamani, an asylum-seeker from Peru who was detained by ...

The Republican-led Hou se on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, a strict immigration detention measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered last year by an ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an immigration detention measure into law, marking his first legislative win days after he took office as the Republican-led Congress angles to execute his ...

Just days into his second presidency, President Donald Trump signed his first piece of legislation: the Laken Riley Act, which requires the government to seek out and arrest illegal immigrants who ...

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman explained why he supports working across party lines, citing his co-sponsorship of the Laken ...

Laken Riley's mother and stepfather endorsed Rep. Mike Collins, a House Republican running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, according to a campaign press release. Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student ...