The bill, named for Laken Riley, a Georgia woman believed to be slain last year by an immigrant who was in the country illegally. Her death became a major campaign issue in the presidential race ...

Texas lawmakers are discussing five proposed bail reforms, including one to prevent undocumented defendants from posting bail ...

Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was killed while on a run in February 2024. Riley’s death was catapulted into national view when authorities revealed that the man ...

President Donald Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his ... framed as connected to a tragic death, is pretext to fortify a mass deportation system,” Flamm said.

The Laken Riley Act mandates the Homeland Security Department to take into custody illegal migrants who are charged with crimes that resulted in death or serious bodily injury to another person.

President Donald Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act into law ... adding crimes causing death or serious bodily injury and assault on a law enforcement officer to those requiring detainment.

It’s an immigration law with murdered nursing student Laken Riley’s name on it. Both Republicans and Democrats have nothing but sympathy for the parents of Riley and both call her death an ...

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday afternoon ... heavily on curbing illegal immigration, using the death of Riley, a nursing student, as a centerpiece for immigration ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act ... murder or any crime that results in death or serious injury,” Trump saod Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta ...

He also announced plans to house 30,000 deportees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Laken Riley's death became one of a handful of cases of illegal immigrant crime used as examples of what the party saw ...

or causing injury or death. It also allows state attorneys general to sue the federal government for harm caused by immigration policy decisions. Laken Riley was killed in February 2024 while ...