Senator Josh Hawley introduced legislation as an amendment to the Laken Riley Act to expand the scope of detaining illegal aliens. Travis’s Law was introduced a year after a 12-year-old boy from the ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) estimates that implementing the proposed Laken Riley Act would cost close to $27 billion annually and would require a massive expansion of resources ...

As a testament to its political salience, the newly GOP-led Congress last week moved forward as its top priority the Laken Riley Act. Riley was a Georgia nursing student who was murdered last year.

Newly in the majority, Senate Republicans have made the so-called Laken Riley Act — named after n Augusta University student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man — a top priority ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Senate Majority Leader John Thune of S.D., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, in ...

The Senate will vote on final passage of the Laken Riley Act on Friday after a short amendment process that saw all Democratic-led amendments fail. The legislation, if it passes — which is not yet ...

President-elect Trump will have an early victory on a key issue during his first week in office after the Senate voted on Friday to advance the Laken Riley Act. The debate over the immigration policy ...

If the bill — called the Laken Riley Act — is signed into law, it would hand an early legislative win to Trump and congressional Republicans, who chose to bring up the measure as their first ...

Ten Democrats in the Senate voted Friday to advance the Laken Riley Act, teeing up a final vote in the upper chamber. The Democratic supporters were Sens. Ruben Gallego (Ariz.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), ...

“Public safety is incredibly important to me, important to my constituents,” Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat who voted for the Laken Riley Act, told HuffPost. “This issue, you know, because we’re ...

Newly in the majority, Senate Republicans have made the so-called Laken Riley Act — named after a Georgia student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man — a top priority, potentially ...